Cirrus Runs Out of Fuel on Training Flight

Power Loss In Flight
Best Glide – 88 KIAS (87 KIAS 2900lbs)
Mixture FULL RICH
Fuel Selector SWITCH TANKS
Fuel Pump BOOST
Ignition Switch CHECK, BOTH

This should be performed by reflex automaticaly no questions asked within the first seconds after loss of power in the SR-22.

Unbelievable that a CFI allowed an airplane to go down without doing the most basic stuff. Fuel pump on, SWITCH TANKS! And why try to crash-land the thing when it has a chute? When this guys time comes and he gets to the pearly gates, Neil Armstong will be standing there to whack him in the head with a rolled-up sectional.

I have no experience in the Cirrus, but when I practice engine failure procedure I don't consider 'select alternate air' in my initial EP's. Anyone have any knowledge why the CFI did?

Should the dry induction filter become clogged, or if ice accumulates a pilot controlled
alternate induction air door can be opened, allowing warm unfiltered air to enter the
engine for engine operation to continue. Akin to carb heat in carburetor equipped engines.

Not being a pilot, But I would wonder if this CFI needs to be looked at by FAA

I cant figure this out. These accidents happen all the time. There is NO EXCUSE for running out of fuel..NONE!! This CFI should be stripped of his cert. Running out of gas..What a joke...

Think the CFI needs a CFI...

Thanks. I was getting it confused with the pitot-static alternate air source. Didn't this take place in August? Seems rather unlikely that snow & ice would have been the prime consideration as an EP.

Never flown a Cirrus but never understood switching fuel loads all the time. Someone's bound to forget. KISS principle applies here. I was taught that slipping or skidding the aircraft works just as well.

From the article:
"The left main fuel tank was ruptured and no browning of vegetation was present under the left wing, an indication there was likely no fuel in the tank prior to impact."

Can someone explain what that means?

Thanks!

Unbelievable that this still happens.

I would have thought that these guys would have noticed the aircraft was wing-heavy on the side where the fuel was plentiful vs. the with with low fuel but since I've never flown a Cirrus I'm certainly not sure of this.

Something is not being told here. 16 gallons of fuel remaining in the right tank. How come they didn't go to it? As with several comments here, switching tanks ought to be 2nd nature

And the big question is, WHY DID HE NOT DEPLOY THE CHUTE? Granted that is the only AC out there with a chute, but if he was a CFI and rated on it he should have known about it.

whoops

Should have deployed the parachute. Never flown the cirrus, but 30 gallons for 2 hour flight seems a little extreme for a plane that size, does that sound right to any cirrus pilots?

Should have pulled the chute