Sounds like a personal issue - like you'll never forget your first
love...


"Schmoe" wrote in
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Thomas Borchert wrote:
C,

I agree (How's that?!). The visibility in the Cirrus is so much better
than, for example, in the Mooney the OP mentioned that I feel much
more "connected" to the skies in a Cirrus. Also, I simply can't
understand all the complaints about the PFDs. If you don't want to
look inside, then don't, for Pete's sake. Nothings keeping you.

It's the old dilemma in the ultra-conservative pilot community: First,
everbody is complaining there's no innovation. Once it is there, they
start reminiscing how great the old was. Oh well, human nature...


I'm the last person to complain about new technology. My "soul" comment
wasn't directed at the glass cockpit so much as the a/c as a whole.
I've flown plenty of new tech over the years and embraced almost every
bit of it.

If you don't get the "soul" comment, it's probably an individual thing.
For me, my favorite toys, be they airplanes, motorcycles etc..., have
something spiritual inside the machine that rises them, for me, above
others even through some of their perceived inferiority. In many ways
my T-210 was a better airplane than my 231 but I'd take my 231 back
today in a sec. It was a special machine. Other 231's may not have
given me the same pleasure.