Count me as another steam gauge pilot. I turn 69 tomorrow and have been flying since I soloed in a 40 HP Cub in 1971. The last flight review I took was in a then-new Skyhawk with a Garmin G2000 panel in it. I spent a week with an introductory DVD and the manuals just to learn the basics of the system before I was even confident enough to schedule the flight review. As someone else mentioned, the time and actions it takes to bring that system up and check the backup to the backup was longer than it would take me to start up, strap in, and taxi to the runup area in my "no electrics" Pietenpol. I don't remember how many fuel system sump drains that Skyhawk had, but it's more drain points than I have fingers on my hand. I have a considerable number of hours in 172s of various year models and I can fly them, love to fly them, but flying that new Skyhawk with glass panels and dozens of checklist items was an ordeal for me. Incredible amount of information and capability available on the panel and it was really cool to fly the HITS down through our thick wildfire smoke that day to a pretty darn decent instrument approach under the hood, but I could never remember how to fly that panel today. I strongly dislike vertical 'tape' readouts and digital readouts, as they take too long to analyze and they're never constant... they are always changing unless you're in smooth air and have the autopilot engaged. I think that's how they want pilots to fly these days anyway.
Make me a little space on the steam gauge pilots bench, Larry. I'm too old to learn this stuff too, and much prefer to fly the airplane instead of the panel. Oscar Zuniga Medford, OR Air Camper NX41CC, A75 power _______________________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/. Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html. see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change options. To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@list.krnet.org
