No, an airline will have years of experience with A glass cockpit, or
perhaps maybe two or three.

But I seriously doubt if any of them have any experience with a Garmin
G1000. And this is the rub: one vacuum instrument is pretty much identical
to the same instrument from another manufacturer in design, construction,
and materials. But it is quite unlikely that a Garmin glass cockpit will
bear any resemblance to an Avidyne or Bendix/King unit in design, or any
other under-the-hood feature.

I don't see this as being a problem, but we don't yet have any failure
statistics or any other sort of history for glass cockpits, and until we do,
some people will be resistant to the change. It's human nature.

Personally, FedEx me a medical and a half million bucks and see how fast I
end up with a Mooney Ovation with the Garmin G1000 in my backyard....


"Thomas Borchert" wrote in message
...
Bill,

But if you are in an aircraft and have a total glass cockpit failure you
have a major problem.


No, you don't. You use the back-up that is there by FAA regulation.

Contrary to your statement, there is something "better" about steam
gauges:
a history. With steam gauges we have a history, we know about when they
will
fail and what the failure points will probably be.

Uh, ever fly the airlines? They have years of experience with glass
cockpits.



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Thomas Borchert (EDDH)