Glass cockpits have reached down to the very simplest and lightest aircraft. A new Aeronca 7EC Champ with G-1000 glass cockpit costs $ 120,000. Get a clue. Stupid, wasteful, and dangerous.
I’m an avionics guy—haven’t read this yet-I’ll bookmark it for later-but, even without reading the article, I can say- it’s a two-edged sword.
Obviously, technology has evolved where, when everything’s working, it’s amazing. In terms of function, features, savings in weight reduction, and size and space restrictions, etc.
Bad thing is it co$ts big buck$, and often the more complex something is, the less things work well-especially early on in development. Plus 2 years later the costly system you bought is superseded by a costly system with more/cooler stuff. If you’re Uncle Sugar, they just take it out of your tax dollars, but everyone else....
And when you have to fix something like that—it’s not usually simple or cheap.