[TalonDJ]

one visual joke that always makes the rounds after and Airbus goes in is the Blue Screen of Death (usually a page fault) on all three primary monitors.

Photoshop.

And MFD in a light plane is a cheap way to integrate a number of IFR functions that would not fit or would be too heavy. It expands the capabilities of the aircraft and the pilot. One could say putting tons of microchips in a car is a similar 'over engineered' solution. Why use computer controlled anti-lock breaks when the old kind work? Why put a GPS in a plane designed in the 40's? Why not? The argument should be to make the current systems more reliable and maintainable, which they are working on doing all the time.

[woerm]

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one visual *joke* that always makes the rounds after an Airbus goes in is the Blue Screen of Death (usually a page fault) on all three primary monitors.

Photoshop.

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I know, that why I called it a *visual joke*.

btw I prefer Boeings as the Pilot get the last vote, not the *bleeping* flight director. Usually the Pilot wants to get home in one piece. The flight director just wants to execute the next line of code.

I can see updated systems and as long as there is some form of an exceptable cost benefit solution, but glassing a 7AC cockpit? That might run up to a TMI (TO MUCH INFORMATION)overload on some poor student.

That brings to mind the full IFR suite I saw some years ago in a BD5J. Full IFR and weather radar in a craft I wouldn’t even contemplate flying in any thing but VFR condtions (the two I saw set up like that didn’t have fuel gagues, just those little fiberoptic things in the tank). brrr. But hey it’s their $$ not mine.

woerm