Gentlemen:
Thank you for your kind words of welcome.
In reply to the two questions posted above, I don't know anything about the 37NG, the 777 or the -400, my experience was solely with the first-generation 767's semi-glass cockpit.
I thought the whole 767 airplane was the high-water mark in the man-machine relationship.
The switchology was excellent; the cockpit check mostly consisted of turning every knob from off to auto and every switchlight was pushed to get rid of its white light; not much to dislike there.
I liked the seating posture: high, erect, with a good view over the nose and the panel well down and forward. Initially, this seemed odd, but I appreciated it when I could see right to the bottom of the panel over the control column.
The glass panels were a bit of a disappointment, in that they pretty well were electronic displays of conventional instruments.
in hindsight, this made them very easy to adapt to.
The EADI seemed absolutely spartan compared to the PFD on the Airbus, but one really great thing about the display-that I didn't notice for about a hundred hours- was the display relationship between the fast-slow pointer on the left side of the attitude and the glideslope pointer on the other side: if both pointers were up, then we were low and fast, and just a pitch adjustment was required, no power, and, conversely, if they were both down, then we were slow and high, and just needed a slight lowering of the nose.
The lower panel, whose acronym I've forgotten, likewise seemed to have very little information, initially it seemed like less than presented on an HSI.
Quickly I learned to love the "track up", and immediately discarded heading information, and feel that is definitely the way to go. Really, who cares what the heading is, when it's just a guess to get a desired ground track? If we already can display the present track.....
Having the relative wind arrow right beside the display was such a great idea that Airbus does the same thing.
I thought the two best things about that lower display-and I miss them both on the Airbus-were the turn noodle and the predictor arc.
The Airbus has a total-energy arc, which is an entirely different prediction.
Boeing made very few mistakes on the 767,even the first ones as I recall. The enormous size and swing of the cabin door handles was a surprize, one usually stood in the way only once.
The sliding cockpit window was an accident waiting to happen, and, sure enough, it caused at least one reject that I'm familiar with.
And it feels so solid, a bit like driving a tank must feel( my experience is limited to half-an-hour at the controls of an APC)
Too bad it was heavy and expensive compared to the competition.
In summary, I would not regret having to go back on it.
I felt it was the greatest airplane when I checked out as an F/O in '83, and still felt that way when I came to it again as a Captain almost ten years later. Even though ours were getting a little long in the tooth by the time of my second visit, they still did what we asked of them without complaint.