Miloch wrote in
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In article , Mitchell
Holman says...

Miloch wrote in
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In article , Mitchell
Holman says...

Miloch wrote in
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That much "glass" would worry me. I know
they pack all kinds of info but when they
go out I want some normal gauges to fall
back on.



Young pilots nowadays prolly think about gauges as so old fashioned
that they can't imagine having to fly using them.

Took my first flying lessons while still in college in the 60s
flying a Cessna 150. Came back from the VietNam War flying UH-1s to
Ft Campbell that had a 10,000 foot runway but only four wheezing
OH-13s left over from the Korean War and no assigned fix-wing
aircraft!


I remember reading of an airliner over Canada
that lost all cockpit power, and the pilots fininshed
the flight navigating only with the wet compass.


Part of flight school was instrument flying with the worse part being
"partial panel"...it consists of not only flying wearing a hood to
keep you from looking outside the cockpit but a cardboard panel the
instructor put on the instrument panel that blocked out attitude
indicator and heading indicator:

https://www.studyflight.com/instrume...partial-panel/

For whatever reason I kept that little piece of cardboard and after 50
years still occasionally look at it and remember how much I hated
partial panel flying!!


My instructor kept a pocketful of these
insidious discs about the size of drink coaster
that he would randomly slap onto a gauge.
"Opps, you just lost your altimeter." "Dang,
there went your turn and bank as well" "And
look, it's just now getting dark, too".