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Has anyone on this list had experience with such a transition?

Not directly, but the place I fly has several glass rentals and those
planes seem to stay busy. All of their new planes for the last two or three
years have been glass, and they wouldn't be adding them to the flight line if
folks weren't renting them. For insurance and hourly cost reasons I don't fly
them, but I believe the transition involves an evening or two of "glass" ground
school and a couple hours in the air with an instructor. Perhaps a bit more
instruction would be in order if you were planning some hard IFR.

I just don't understand why folks fly away in $250,000 rentals when you
can't generally buy over $100,000 renter's insurance. I fly cheap planes, and
they don't have glass except for the round bits over the steam guages.

Vaughn