Not a good trainer SR-22
I have flown the Cirus and have said time and again that it is not a good training aircraft. As a flight instructor, I have flown with several pilots who learned how to fly in the Cirus and there is a remarkable difference between those pilots and ones who learned on something that made you work for your rating. I will give the Cirus some credit - I like the way it flies and the responsiveness, just not the landing characteristics for beginning pilots. Learning in a 152 or 172 you have to fly it to the ground and then learn how to level out and then flare. Even more, I wish that people still learned in tail draggers. If you can land some taildraggers in a X-wind, then you can land anything. As far as someone not learning in a HP/ Complex, I am mixed on that issue. The T-28 was a good training aircraft and it was over 16,000 lbs and very complex. Any instructor worth his / her salt will not let you solo until you are ready, no matter what you are flying in.
The Cirus is good if you have some time under your belt, understanding the whole pitch, power, performance concept that you learned in a 152 or 172. Personally, I'm going to leave those aircraft to executives who want to get down to the beach with their golf clubs as fast as possible. Tell you what I would suggest, find some salty old flight instructor in sleepy old airport
and you won't regret the experience. If you can learn how to fly in a Cub or something with a conventional gear, then better on you, though good luck finding that these days. One thing also, you shouldn't be in a hurry to get all of your ratings done. I know furloughed pilots who would do anything to have my flight instructing job. Take your time and become an apprentice to the craft.
~Flyer7SA