"Roger" wrote in message
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On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 18:37:26 GMT, "A. Smith"
wrote:


Transitioning to, or learning on a glass panel does not need to be
difficult or take hours and hours of training. To do so means some
very important steps have been left out of the learning cycle, or the
cycle was not taken in logical order.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

I don't know that I can agree with you Roger. I recently had a chance to
fly a Cessna 421C with the Chelton Synthetic Vision TM installed. I had
no
previous experience with EFIS and had only a short time to read the basics
out of the manual. My flight was about 1 1/2 hours in VFR and I had a

You are pointing out just what I said. The problems come when the
transition is attempted to be made in total instead of incrementally.

The learning pilot, whether IFR or primary student doesn't have these
problems, or shouldn't if the training on the glass panel is done
incrementally.

I see your point. If the glass panel can be learned from the ab initio
state it will just be normal procedure. I am looking at it from the
viewpoint of someone who has been flying gauges for years. You can't just
read the book, file a flightplan and blast-off into 200 and 1/2. Wouldn't
be prudent! (:-)

Allen