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Cannot agree with you on modern technology eliminating basic skills and experience.
Anyone who relies on technology is playing a dangerous game.
One of the Citations I fly is so advanced we are graced with a King 90B GPS and no FMC
Yes the aircraft is RVSM and hence the old girl struggles up to FL390 to mix it with the EasyJets of this world passing 1000 feet above or below but even the autopilot has its funny ways and workarounds.
The Senecas I fly are more advanced with one! wait for it sporting a Garmin 530!!! but they are less than half the speed"
The problem with any of this singing dancing technology is it has a habit of letting you down!
Then you are left with your basic skills good for the soul! I am for pilots not aeroplane drivers! That is handling pilots who can smell the ice in the clouds!
That doesnt come from technology!
As for a 30 yr old beat up and smelly C150 no the hirer might not like spending his hard earned cash on such a machine but it wont do him any harm flying basic.
The Cirrus SR22 I flew was so singing and dancing I felt I was sitting in front of a computer game not an aircraft. " You have crashed game reset".
Pace