"Darkwing" theducksmail"AT"yahoo.com wrote in message
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Well I think I am going to finally put in the time and effort to go for my
Instrument Rating this fall but exactly with what aircraft avionics is my
biggest question. Where I fly they have basically all new 172SP's with
G1000's for rent. Obviously this is the aircraft I prefer to rent for VFR
because of all the cool and nice tools they have on board, I like eye
candy! They also have a couple older 172R's (by older I mean 4 years old)
but they have steam gauges only plus Garmin 430 GPS's. I trained on steam
gauges for my private but not sure which way I should go for my
instrument. As time goes I'm sure the glass cockpit aircraft will be more
and more common but I don't know if that is a crutch for learning IFR with
or not. Any thoughts?

Learn on the equipment that you're likely to be flying.