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Old 29th Jul 2014, 09:00
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FGD135 : excellent point, which I share, but I am not that young anymore and have made all my flight hours ( since 1967) with round dials and still use them today in my aircraft, so I feel more confident with them of course.
That said the young generation seems to have no problems with Glass /Garmin displays and speetapes. We have.

I have read last week an interesting article about 4 Cirrus SR20 and 22 recent accidents in France , where overconfidence in glass cockpits info and automation was a contributing factor in all cases.
The article did not say round dials would have saved their days, but with a traditional aircraft probably more caution would have been used , elimating this sense of " computer is allowing me to that" , or "to go beyond " . that we saw also in the Asiana case.
And you are right , this is not an "Asian " thing . It could have caught anyone overconfident in automation.
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