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Old 12-13-2007, 11:36 PM
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Originally Posted by TurbineTime View Post
Hey everybody, as a new poster on this forum who will most likely be moving on to the regionals in a year or two, i have a question about glass cockpits. I am going to school at Western Michigan University and really enjoying it. However, the primary aircraft that we use for training are Cirrus SR-20/22's with full glass cockpits. Western says that "advanced aircraft" training will make us more marketable??? Is this true? How many regionals and 135 operators actually operate aircraft with glass?? Not dishing on Western, i like the program, just looking for answers from people in the industry. Safe skies everybody.
Most of them, in fact.

The main benefit of training and operating EFIS equipped aircraft is knowing how the displays function, how to select their functions, and know their failure modes. Beyond that, all they are doing is indicating the same information that was displayed by analog instruments, back in the Pleistocene Epoch.
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