Creating Cirrus SR22T Pilot Profiles- Part 2-MFD Options

The Cirrus Perspective avionics suite is as deep as it is powerful. But, it can also be very intimidating. Knowing what information is available to you, how you access that information, and deciding how you want it displayed is no small feat. The key to putting all that power at your fingertips is in setting up your own Pilot Profile. Top Cirrus CSIP Ed Watters explains how to setup your pilot profile in the Cirrus Perspective avionics system.

Creating Pilot Profiles- Cirrus Perspective Plus- Part 1 PFD Options

[MikeKobb]

These are great videos, thank you! One thing to note for anybody who didn't follow your instructions to watch Part 1 first -- Ed recommended in #1 to create an IFR and a VFR profile, and the settings he's showing in this one are for the IFR profile.

[aviatortrevor]

I think current climb gradient isn't neccesary for your setup, because 1) presumably you looked up your expected climb performance before takeoff 2) if you aren't meeting your expected climb gradient, you're just going to monitor your synthetic vision anyways, and even if you're meeting your climb gradient you're going to monitor your synthetic vision. So... synthetic vision makes the current climb gradient irrelevant. Synthetic vision gives you a simple to understand picture where you can easily judge if you are safely clearing terrain or not. If you have to deviate off course to avoid terrain in an emergency, no problem! Just use synthetic vision and point to where there is clearance from terrain.

If all other plans fail, such as you got stuck in bad icing and are low on fuel, keep it simple - that synthetic vision will save your life. Some people practice going below minimums (under the hood or in a sim) with synthetic vision so that in a future emergency it's an option.

[Pilottommy]

I see the newest comment is 11 months old so I don't know if this site is still active. Anyway the setup videos are OK except I wish the video was zoomed in closer to the PFD/MFD texts visible.

[larryvet]

I have yet to find one good educational video on my perspective system.

[robertg]

Setting P+ at UTC time doesn't make any sense to me; I understand that clearances get provided in UTC but for that I use a widget on my phone. On the User Fields: XTK is also shown on the HSI in green needles if I am not mistaken. I would also opt for MSA, and FOD; They are very useful (more so than AGL imo).

[Pilottommy]

Sorry my words got garbled / Bottom line is I can't see the words on the PFD/MFD screens and its hard to follow the steps.