Originally Posted by
rickair7777
But you waste the first session learning the glass...and you only get 7-8 before the checkride. An inexperienced pilot might need that extra session.
you mean someone that's so inexperienced that they probably shouldn't even be in training for an airline.
my first exposure to a glass cockpit was at TSA. it took me all of the first takeoff to figure out how to read and "interpret" the panel (read=follow the FD)
now, you might want to spend 5 or 6hrs in a cirrus right before you head off to initial training to refresh your memory, but spending 200hrs and a few extra thousand dollars to fly a glass cockpit? i'd pass.