On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:17:26 -0800, BT wrote:

This was discussed some years ago with the beginning of the glass panel, but
also with the beginning of DA20s and DA40s used for primary training.
Transition from glass to steam gauges is a minor transition.

OK. What about steam to glass transitions?

The bigger issue appeared to be teaching them to land cessna's and pipers.
The Diamonds land "flat" with long glider wings and have a low instrument
panel. Their transition to cessna's found that they were not getting the
nose high enough to keep the nose wheel off the ground.

Yeah, I found this out the reverse having trained on the Cessnas.

Would you agree that

http://www.eaa-fly.com/Training/Training.html

who claims once glass trained, then go get "typed" on the Cessnas makes
better sense than going Cessna training from the get-go? Consider what
the cost is of rentals of the two and the availability of rentals.