Should I log TAA time?

[shdw]

nor do they alleviate the pilot's primary responsibility to look outside while flying.

Look outside when we have all these pretty screens to look at and a radar (or they think it's a radar)...pft why bother? At least this is the mindset I've seen with the handful of guys I've flown with in TAAs. When HUDs are present in GA is when pilots will begin looking outside again.

On the plus side, I flew with a guy a few weeks ago who is a fresh private pilot. He was the first guy under age 50, with private certificate or better, I've flown with that appeared to be comfortable using outside information, instead of instruments, to judge his flight performance. What a pleasure.

 

[MidlifeFlyer]

Looks like it's just a fancy way of saying, "this is an airplane with cool avionics."

I read the AOPA Safety Foundation handout on TAA, and it just all seems a little strange to me.

The good thing is that the Safety Foundation makes a very important point that advanced avionics neither change how airplanes are flown, nor do they alleviate the pilot's primary responsibility to look outside while flying.

TAA is really just an instructional classification.

The FAA, in conjunction with manufacturers and flight schools came to the decision early on that "this is cool avionics" meant changes were needed in some instructional techniques so that all the bells, whistles and need for programming were balanced with "the pilot's primary responsibility to look outside while flying" or, for that matter, to maintain altitude, heading and aircraft control in the clouds.