Glass big learning curve?

Using the altimeter in the glass cockpit is a new skill for holding
altitude in IMC or under the hood. The rest of the guages seemed to go
quickly, but they all took some getting used to.

To really KNOW that complicated panel (I mean every function and all
the idiosyncracies) would take several hundred hours. To just fly it
VFR all you need to learn new is how to tune the radios.

I don't currently fly, haven't in a long time, and was a student when I did;
so I had started to wonder whether it was just me, or whether others also
found the altimeters in the some of the glass panels to be non-intuitive.

I really thought that the airspeed indicators were non-intuitive as well,
but that seemed far less problematic--at least for VMC.

At the moment, I can't quite decide whether the fact that it is not-just-me
is better or worse. However, I can't quite get used to the idea that the
numbers move, instead of the needles, and that the result seems to require
the user/pilot to interpret the data a digital instead of analog.

Peter
Just my $0.02

I don't currently fly, haven't in a long time, and was a student when I did;
so I had started to wonder whether it was just me, or whether others also
found the altimeters in the some of the glass panels to be non-intuitive.

I really thought that the airspeed indicators were non-intuitive as well,
but that seemed far less problematic--at least for VMC.

I've flown glass once, and I found the gauges to be non-intuitive and
hard to use. For one thing, they are of different sizes, so one can't
at a glance see what fraction of "full" you are at, like you can with a
round airspeed gauge. I much prefer a round gauge.

Jose
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