Originally Posted by
Flyboyxc91
My qualifications on a G1000 are simply that, a qualification I listed for my overall experience. I've had 5 students all pass Instrument checkrides as my time as an instructor so far - 1 has been on a G1000 and two were on aircraft that were equipped with standard analogue OBS/CDI.... Put another way I never flew ANY glass till about 300 hours ago and still regularly independently instruct in BASIC six packs, I also never even touched any GPS till I was half way through my instrument training. Ive done localizer BC non precision approaches using basic NAV/LOC REVERSE sensing just fine. Just wanted to clarify my previous experience instead of feeling like I just got put down for setting hands on a "too capable" airplane to be a "good" situational IFR Pilot.
I didn't intend it to be a put down for having time in a high tech plane. As someone correctly deduced, I have seen many pilots come through who have spent most of their training time in glass cockpit airplanes and had great difficulty transitioning to our "antique" aircraft. We even started offering a one week instrument refresher at a local flight school to folks before our indoc to help guys get through training.