Common instruments on small aircraft

Recently, Mxsmanic posted:

Neil Gould writes:

A lot of this depends on the individual. I doubt that Jay's family
would agree with you that their aircraft is impractical as
transportation. I don't understand the notion that it is a problem
that one is "still most likely to have to rent a car"; so what?

Because if you take a car somewhere, you don't have to rent a plane to
finish the trip.

Again, I say, "so what?" It's a non-issue, because if you fly
commercially, you *still* have to rent a car to get around.

Weather limitations are greatly over-rated. As others have pointed
out, the inconvenience of waiting out weather can be less than an
hour, and most of the time less than a day.

When the meeting is at 10 AM, that's a show-stopper.

People who "must be there" at a particular time miss a lot of meetings,
regardless of their mode of transportation.

That is not much to be concerned about
if you compare that to having to make connecting flights to take the
same trip commercially.

The commercial flight can generally be relied upon; the GA flight
cannot. Commercial aviation has spent decades and billions of dollars
to ensure that airliners can fly in all but the worst weather.

That is not my experience at all. Within the last 5 months, my wife and I
have missed connecting flights due to airline issues 2 out of 2 times. I
have yet to miss my arrival times flying GA.

Neil