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Old 30th Aug 2013, 05:52
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It's interesting the pilots have kept a low profile since the event.
Not if you think about what they have been and are about to go through.

Don't bash glass
I'll agree with the statement, but not the rest. I have found many of the strips to be just as intuitive or better.

Sticking with round 'gauges' on a screen just because that's how guys have been flying for decades seems right in the short term, but defeats so many advantages of no longer using a mechanical gauge.

Clean sheet of paper thinking should not be discouraged.

The unfavourable comments about glass cockpits in general are very valid. What a retrograde step. Mostly mixed, random, messy and counterintuitive, totally at odds with how a human seeks and isolates information. If users need training in how to glean/extract vital information from a "Display" (further to regular IFR scanning), then what does that say?
Often, not always but often, it means the human doesn't want to or is having difficulty changing the way they do things.
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