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The Cirrus Vision Center in Knoxville
The Cirrus Vision Center, located at the foot of the Smoky Mountains in Knoxville, Tennessee, is Cirrus Aircraft’s flagship location for pilot training, service, support, sales, marketing, aircraft delivery and other activities for the Cirrus SR and SF50 single-engine personal jet aircraft series. The company plans to expand its presence here. Credit: Molly McMillin
Vision G2
Cirrus announced an improved jet, the Vision Jet G2, with cockpit and cabin improvements as well as improved range and higher cruising speeds in January 2019. The jets are flown from Duluth, Minnesota, where they are assembled in Knoxville for delivery to the customer. . Source: Cirrus
Cirrus aircraft design options
Cirrus customers select the paint and interior of their new aircraft, right down to the color of the pedals, at the Cirrus Aircraft Customer Experience Center. Credit: Molly McMillin
The Cirrus Delivery Center
Cirrus Aircraft delivers the SR20, SR22, SR22T and Vision Jet to customers at its Vision Center in Knoxville. Here, a Vision Gen 2 is ready for delivery. Credit: Molly McMillin
Red carpet treatment
For delivery by air, Cirrus customers are taken to a dark delivery hangar, where once inside they are greeted with a red carpet, disco lighting, and their favorite music to mark the special occasion. Credit: Cirrus Aircraft
Customer service
The Vision Center includes a service center for annuals, major inspections and other maintenance work. The new planes to be delivered receive all the necessary touch-ups after their flight from Duluth, where they are built. Credit: Molly McMillin
Press a button
The Vision Jet G2 includes Garmin’s Safe Return emergency automatic landing system. In the event of the pilot’s incapacity, passengers press the bright red button above their heads and the aircraft automatically selects the nearest suitable airport, flies to the runway and lands. Credit: Molly McMillin
Know-how in training
Cirrus pilots come to Knoxville for training, Cirrus Aircraft’s only factory training facility for Cirrus aircraft and only training facility for the Vision jet. Credit: Molly McMillin
Cirrus clouds and simulators
The Cirrus training center includes simulators for training pilots on the Vision Jet, including this full level D motion simulator manufactured by CAE. Cirrus offers pilots transition training, recurrent training and training for a full type rating in the Vision jet. About 70% of pilots participating in the program have never obtained a type rating of any kind. Credit: Molly McMillin
Mark the occasion
Once the pilots have completed their type ratings, they sign the large white boards near the flight simulator to record the achievement. Credit: Molly McMillin
Competence in the cockpit
Patrick Sniffen, Cirrus Marketing Director, shows a visitor where pilots train on the Garmin Cirrus Perspective +. The avionics suite includes oversized flight displays with situational awareness, real-time weather, automatic flight control system, automatic pressurization programming, automated system alerts and other features. Credit: Molly McMillin
What’s in store?
The Cirrus store at the Cirrus Vision Center is a popular stop. Credit: Molly McMillin
The Media Studio
Cirrus creates its own training programs and operates a media studio, with green screen, to produce in-house videos for training, customer meetings, sales and other purposes. Credit: Molly McMillin
Space for growth
Cirrus intends to build a new main campus here at the site of its current vision center in Knoxville. A timetable has not been established. Credit: Molly McMillin
Cirrus Aircraft is expanding its Vision Center, located at McGhee Tyson Airport in Knoxville, Tennessee. It plans to inaugurate three new hangars at the end of 2021. Eventually, the Duluth, Minnesota-based company plans to build a new main facility on campus.
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