Darkwing wrote:
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?

It is later easier to transition from steam gauges
to G1000 than the opposite direction. If I were you,
I'd start with the traditional ones.

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Tauno Voipio (CPL(A), CFII)
Steam gauges: OH-PYM, PA-28RT201T
G1000: OH-STS, DA-42