Blanche wrote:

Roy:
Expecting (assuming) all IFR training in the US to be in aircraft
that have IFR-certified GPS is a bit unrealistic.

Would you like to pay for an IFR-certified GPS to be installed in
my cherokee? I'd be delighted, and would even buy you dinner.


That comparison is irrelvant.

Roy is speaking of trainers at a school that holds itself out to the
public to provide IFR flight training.

You are talking about your own personal airborne "rattletrap."