Ask the front porch gang at the local airport which is better, a “six-pack” full of traditional round dial instruments or a bright new glass cockpit screen, and the answers will be all over the map.
The more experienced aviators in the group may extol the virtues of a panel full of round dials, even as they throw a little shade at the occasionally fickle vacuum pump. The younger generation, raised from birth on iPads, iPhones, and the omnipresent Garmin G1000, wonder what this whole round-dial thing is all about anyway. Why would anyone want to fly without gigabytes of color-coordinated data flowing through those big screens? So, the answer to the question—round dials or glass cockpit?—is a rousing “it depends,” and blessedly, there is no wrong answer.
The Legacy General Aviation Fleet
The beauty of so many legacy single-engine GA aircraft is that, when cared for properly, their aluminum airframes are quite resilient and resistant to fatigue. Maybe this is due to the slide rule and drafting table generation that designed them. Seems these engineers added a little extra strength and skin thickness just to be on the safe side. Some bucks spent on a hangar, updated paint and exterior, and a little TLC under the cowling, and your 30-year-old Cessna 172 will keep up with a brand-new one, for a lot less dollars. And, hey, the last few years have seen the hull value of…
Source www.planeandpilotmag.com
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