Mighty Gem and BHPS,
Your comments on the airspeed tape is right on. I have often found myself going "by the numbers" while flying airspeed because it was not easily decyphered. For the latest family of Sikorsky/Collins EFIS displays, on Black Hawk, Naval Hawks and the S/H-92, our pilots rejected the scrolling tape as unworkable, and use a dial for airspeed, with cruise speed at the 9 o'clock position.
This dial seems to be working its way into other systems, the US Army Collins CAS cockpit has it, and so to does the latest CUP cockpit for the H-60's in the Marine HMX-1 Squadron.
It is really progress to leap forward to get back to the airspeed dial that worked so well for 100 years!
Here is a glance at the cockpit displays of the S/H-92:
