My point was that to go directly to a high performance airplane is asking for trouble. Ask John Kenney Jr. --- He had more airplane than he could safely handle. So did this guy.
You bet. I just read AOPAs article on the EADS Socata TBM 700C2, a six pax, single engine turbine that has a PT6A-64 for a powerplant. AOPA does a marvelous job of detailing the performance of the plane (max. cruise setting, FL280 @ 6164 lbs is 290 kts/1015 NM, but I'll bet my bottom dollar that the test pilot at EADS waxed and pampered that baby to achieve that performance), and warns the reader - who knows a little bit about Part 23 certification - that this is a very hot airplane (Vso is
65 knots. They used a special exemption around the 61 knot limitation). All in all, a very good article.
However....
EADS placed an advertisement in the back of the magazine showing the 700 being deplaned and offloaded by four models posing as pilots and pax. The image and the verbiage leads one to believe that this plane is as easy to fly as your basic trainer. I imagine that there's some 80-hour-on-his-PPL-ticket executive, who is an accident waiting to happen, is calling his dealer based on the ad and not the article.