Originally Posted by
waflyboy
Don't forget leaky! Fly in the rain and you'll get wet!
Two more things about this: 1) Glass in a training aircraft shouldn't be that big of a deal. Anybody with good instrument skills can transition to a glass flight deck with relative ease when the time is right. 2)
Any plane can kill you. I know you're referring to old aircraft being less reliable. (Which probably depends more on the operator than the age of the airplane.) But let me say this: in almost 1,400 hours of flying in light GA aircraft (aircraft older than myself, for the most part), I've never had a life threatening mechanical problem. I'll bet there are plenty of similar testimonials around here.
I know people are going to rag on me about the "plane can kill you." comment.
I suppose the reason why I also don't like FBO's is because I had a bad experience with a Piper that was rented from a local flight school and FBO. I took it down to Harlingen Texas and I wound up having to make an emergency landing in Corpus because I had a full avionics failure in IMC with my dad aboard.
I had little actual instrument time and I attribute 90% of my survival because of DCA's training.
So yes, needless to say after that I went running back to DCA and finished up my comm and multi.