Mxsmanic wrote in
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Don Tuite writes:

I figure it's a conspiracy to make flying as much like a video game
as possible.

I suppose you are making a joke, but there may be considerable truth
in what you say.

As computers enter many domains in which they had not previously been
used, the "computer mindset" also tends to pollute those domains,
since the ergonomy of computer software is often a function of the
preferences of the developers who build it. I note that glass
cockpits bear a suspicious resemblance to PC-based interfaces, a
likely sign that the developers knew a lot more about PCs than they
did about cockpit designs. The glass cockpits drift towards an
interface that looks like something you'd see on a laptop computer,
rather than something you'd see in a traditional cockpit. I don't
think this is a good thing. Indeed, it is one of my objections to
glass cockpits, especially the highly integrated kind often installed
in small aircraft (think G1000).


How would you know?

You don't fly and you never will.

bertie