"Colin W Kingsbury" wrote:

"Doug" wrote in message
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The cost will go down. It costs no more to make a glass panel than the
gyros they replace, maybe less.

True, but the point is that you can only get a glass panel in a new plane,
and a new plane is (and will continue to be) far more expensive than an
"equivalent" new one. Most places are getting crunched badly enough on fuel
as it is.

The interesting transition is going to happen in a few (5-10?) years
when glass cockpits have been around long enough for all the flight
schools to have them. Then we're going to be putting out a new
generation of freshly-licensed pilots who grew up on glass and won't
accept less. Kind of like what's happening with GPS today.