Glass big learning curve?

Hamish Reid wrote:


I'm a relatively old geezer and I had no trouble at all with getting
signed off at our club for the G1000 C172 after about an hour's flying
for VFR (ok, the bloody fam sheet / test thing paperwork that had to be
filled out before signoff took forever, but that's just looking things
up in the POH and trying not to die of boredom while doing so...).

IFR was a bit longer, but only because you really want to be damn sure
you know at least the basics of how to reset the GPS and start again
(urgh! don't get me started...), and because, well, it's IFR and you
want to be familliar with at least the basics (partial panel is
interesting on a G1000 172). As others have commented the vertical tape
airspeed and altimeter displays can be a little unfamiliar at first, but
really, 10 hours seems an awful long time to transition even for IFR
and a 182, especially if you already have Garmin GPS 430 or 530
experience.

Hamish


A suggestion.... Flight Simulator X has aircraft with glass panels. You
don't have to buy anything. Download the Demo 2 FSX file and fire up
the Baron. I'm fairly sure the Baron is in the demo. But if not, no
problem,go to avsim.com and search for "g1000 and download the FSX
aircraft that show up. Picture below

Hamish, it would be great if you were to look at it. You would know
right away if it's worth fooling with. There's a few others here that
I'm sure can do the same, I just don't have their names handy.

Her are the panels
http://xs412.xs.to/xs412/07070/glass-g1000.jpg

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boB
copter.six


U.S. Army Aviation (retired)
Central Texas
5NM West of Gray Army/Killeen Regional (KGRK)