NWA flow back into compass.

[dwhsunday]

And these two idiots don't even work at compass. Thank god.

 

[HA25]

Glass does one thing, it narrows your scan to a more smaller defined area. Never said glass didn't make life easier.

By looking at a Flight Director you have the luxury of not looking at your Alt, A/S, VSI, Heading. Basically reducing your scan.

If you wanna sharpin your insturment skills either in Glass or Steam. Just turn off the flight director and hand fly.

Like I said, its all the same. Modern Glass just narrows the scan area and makes life easier.

All the same, you pull back houses get smaller. You push forward and they get bigger.

If you keep pulling back, they get smaller and then all the sudden get bigger really fast.

Okay, your all pilots now. So Go have fun with the profession you have chosen.

The biggest fail rate of any airplane I've personally ever seen is when MD11 FO's were upgrading to DC10 captain jobs... It's FAR more than just the "basic T" scan.. it's the SA (Situational Awareness) that having an ND does for you.

I've flown everything from MD11's with full glass, dual FMS, CAT IIIb, VNAV, etc.. to Citaiton 500's with all steam... trust me, both are a lot of workload at times, but the difference between the two is night and day in terms of how you fly them when the autopilot is on.

Lastly, I always feel like the guys coming up in aviation today with the new glass cockpit C-172's at some of these academies then going straight to an RJ or E jet are missing a lot of valuable instrument training that you get from flying the old RMI or CDI and a chart... We can only pray that some of those 300 hour wonders don't find themselves in their first upgrade on a DC9!