That actually reminds me of my last IMC check out. In the club plane, cause it has all the IFR bells and whistles, except, the brighlty lit readouts on the King NAV/COM, and the DME read outs, were failing. So you got half of a three, which read a couple of lines, the top half of a five, you will get the picture.
Instructor states before we go, dont worry about that I will shout out what I think is the correct DME number, as you carry out your various procedure holds, and I will input the frequencies, therefore that is another load off your plate!!
It developed into true farce, when most of the fading read outs began to actually fail, and at this stage we had trouble actually inputting the approach frequency.
At one point I was stoating about the VOR hold, at 4500, not having one iota about where I was in relation to the beacon.
Make a good show that..