"Helen Woods" wrote in message
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Call me old fashioned, but you won't find me behind a glass panel or
flying a "plastic" airplane. Just something about flying a bird where
all the instruments don't rely on one type of system and the wings won't
ever delaminate no matter what color I paint them...

Helen

But you will get into a single engine airplane, where there is a single
point of failure, called an engine? Your statement is not logical.

You should be wary of getting into an airplane made of a structure that does
not have a set of failure modes that are completely understood. Fiberglass
airplanes do have a failure mode of weakening from overheating due to paint
color, which is understood. No need to be afraid, there. Aluminum has a
metal fatigue problem. Afraid to get in them? Nope, cause the failure
modes are understood.

You should be wary of getting into an airplane that does not have redundancy
in the electrical system, when the instruments are all electric. The glass
panel is not a problem, if it has a long period between failures that has
been demonstrated. I would say, after the second failure, all of the
electrical system, and all of the sensors should have been replaced, as it
was not the display with the problem. This assumes that the display has
already demonstrated a long time between failures, which I am quite sure has
been done.

Risk assessment, and mitigation, is the name of the game.
--
Jim in NC