On Dec 12, 4:29*pm, B A R R Y wrote:
Dave J wrote:

Am I being a crazy stick-in-the-mud?

I think so.

You're bound to learn SOMETHING in ground school.

No doubt. I'm just turning into an old aviation curmudgeon. I learned
to fly in beater aircraft with ridiculously antiquated avionics, and
dagnammit, that was good enough then, why isn't it good enough now?

Also, because I've had to scale back my flying a lot in the past
couple of years, it's more of a sunday-vfr-drive kind of thing for me
now, where shiny new tech is less interesting to me than it used to be
when I was IFR current and using the rating -- but I know that for
most the glass panels are really making flying more fun.

-- dave j