Originally Posted by
squib
Still fail to see your logic. Even a G1000 guy trains partial panel on standby instruments. Probably more often than a 121 guy in a glass cockpit. When was the last time you flew solely on standby instruments in a crj? It doesn't happen. You can start out training in whatever you want, most guys don't start on glass. If anything,the guys in a G1000 training environment with a couple hundred hours would have the edge of the guy dusting crops for 3 years vfr.
Your crop dusting comparison misses the point.
Look at it this way...can a G1000 pilot find out easily where they are with just an HSI and no moving map? It seems there is an uncomfortably high number of glass generation flyers that can't keep SA when all the features are not working.
The CRJ has the ability to display round dials such as the HSI or even an RMI...navigating by those instruments alone...sometimes without DME are skills that are underdeveloped or missing.
In today's modern airliner do we do that? Not really...but the ability to maintain SA and stay ahead of the airplane no matter it's sophistication is built in those basic skills.
So much time is wasted in the sim teaching or reteaching candidates how to figure out where they are because they are not seeing the big picture.