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On Aug 24, 10:41 am, "Darkwing" theducksmail"AT"yahoo.com 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?

Not trying to hijack this thread - good subject, IMO, but please:
When VFR (and IFR in VMC), LOOK OUT THE BLEEDING WINDOWS!!!! Eye
candy is nice, but a midair really, really sucks.

Kirk
LS6-b "66"


Actually the #1 thing that worries me the most in flying (just for the
record, I know it IS illogical % wise but I tend to worry about the least
likely scenarios in most things in life) is a mid-air so even with cool eye
candy I am very vigilant for traffic. Eye candy or no eye candy I am VERY
vigilant for traffic outside the windows. It has been the #1 thing that
concerns me when flying since the day I started, engine out, onboard fire,
electrical failure, all these things take a back seat in my brain to a
mid-air.

In response to the other threads, I kind of figured the consensus would lean
toward steam gauges and I do agree for a lot of reasons. I think the G1000
will actually make IFR that much easier once I get proficient with steam
gauges.