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Old January 3rd 09, 11:06 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.aviation.student
Michael Ash
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Default Extended full-power in small pistons

In rec.aviation.student Mxsmanic wrote:
It's odd that pilots would object to a more modern engine on the one hand, but
are more than willing to install the iffy technology of a glass cockpit.


Seriously? You really can't grasp the difference? Are you completely daft?
(Yes.)

If your fancy glass cockpit fails you either go back to looking out the
window or you revert to steam-gauge instrements. In either case, the
failure is at worst an annoyance.

If your engine fails in the wrong circumstances then you die.

And yet you can't see why a pilot might be more accepting of failure in
the former case than the latter?

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