To be clear, my original complaint was not about screens in general,
but rather the way they are being used. I think the holy grail of how
to represent flight information has not yet been found. Designing a
good user interface is more art than science, as any computer
programmer knows.

Imagine we had open source cockpit software. It could run on actual
plane hardware and also on simulators, so you would have the whole sim
community writing cockpit software. And aircraft owners could download
whatever new software is out there and try it out (on a sunny day at
an uncontrolled airport:-))The FAA would probably have a fit, but the
EAA somehow managed to convince us that homebuilts are safe, so merely
writing software for perfectly airworthy planes can't be so bad.

Arno