TAA cockpits

Champcar said:
Glass really has a great advantage at night, it rocks.

By the way i think the whole going from glass to dials is bs. Ive had no problem using old dials and I did my instrument on the Avidyne.
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Not to jump on you, but it's not BS. I know of some people who barely made it through our training due to nothing but glass experience prior to coming here.
 
Sounds like some may be a little afraid of the technological advances in general aviation:confused: Folks assume non pilots will use this to get a ticket, I like to think that it makes pilots' jobs easier.
 
what did you guys expect? that we'd have steam gauges forever?

maybe its a bit early but oh well...
 
Just wondering if you guys knew that a 172-S Nav II package is also considered a TAA aircraft according to the FAA?

TAA doesn't mean glass cockpit the way I read it.
 
Yea I forget the definition exactly, but doesnt it read that anything with an IFR GPS is TAA?

The concerns about all glass aircraft have been voiced before. As long as training programs continue to implement a portion of the training in steam aircraft I dont see a problem. If I were to design a training course built around an all glass plane I would have the student do the private and instrument in steam gauges, then the commercial rating in glass. There are just to many employers out there that still fly all steam airplanes.
 
meritflyer said:
I was agreeing with you or yet, adding onto what you already said.
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Gotcha...we got crossed up in the messages then.:)
 
Stone Cold said:
What doesn't? To fly an airplane? Especially a GA airplane? Really? Has nothing to do with pilot skills? WOW!!
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Why don't you go and read what I was talking about. I was talking about the auto land. Some times young pilots get over their heads and maybe get nervous, or get sacared. There are a lot of landing accidents where pilots try something for the first time on their own and don't make it.

A auto land would be great in these situations, it may not have anything to do with skills, but sometimes people make bad choices.
 
Cessnaflyer said:
I don't even trust the avidyne in VMC day conditions. I still think some implementations of the TAA need to rechecked
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Champcar said:
Don't see why, I have had on a few minors problems with it, nothing different that with old dials.
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Yea, I would like to know as I am flying an Avidyne system with dual garmins. It has a PFD as well. I do VMC and IFR and have had some minor issues, but never a major scare.
 
With 2 430's you can do almost anything, and with the 3 backup instruments dont see any reason not to trust it. I've never lost air data, only lost engine data once but it was not a big deal. And this is flying in Cirrus's that are beat to hell and flown in the hot weather all summer pounding out approaches.
 
Champcar said:
It's a joke isn't it.
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No joke and it wasn't meant towards you either. I'm just implying that with people saying I'll only trust the older gauges that this is a reflection of society in regards to most technoligcal advances. Then there is the stigma that new students will start flocking to schools/fbos and schools/fbos will be pumping out pilots that don't know anything.
 
TFaudree_ERAU said:
My argument is about the over reliance on the technology, and not being able to take a step back into something with round dials
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For some reason when I read this, I think of a bunch of old guys in the late 50s bickering about how new pilots learn on those new fancy tri-cycle gear airplanes. And how they are all "over reliance on the technology" and can not "step back" into a tailwheel. I know it is a very poor anology, but that is just the first thing that comes to my mind.

Alex.
 
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