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Old 15th Apr 2016, 04:13
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chuks
 
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Not so fast ....

Conventional wisdom was that it took an experienced pilot who had only flown with "steam gauges" about 300 hours to get past that "What is it doing now?" stage with a glass cockpit. "Results may vary," of course. Some guys pick it up right away, but others never do quite catch up to the airplane.

Modern displays can present one hell of a lot of information all at once so that you need to understand what you are looking at and what to pay attention to. These displays can easily overload someone with information, when that might turn out to be part of the problem with what went wrong this time.
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