I would have thought in this era where it is simple to build solid state standby instrumentation it's not so essential to be as good as we all used to be BUT..........
why isn't there more of an effort to make the primary instruments far easier and more basic. I accept that the ng instrumentation we use now are far better than on an old caravelle etc but the philosophy is the same. maybe it's time for a radical rethink eg the way airbus changed things in the eighties with FMS and computetr systems.
horizons and loads of gauges all over the place make things harder during an abnormal. wouldn't it be nice in a critical situation to have information presented more accurately.
why not a voice activated QRH from the egpws. for example............
just a thought.