Ep. 242: Glass Cockpit Vs. Steam Gauge | What's Better? 

turbofan450 agreed

Exactly the same here, too. I am currently in the decision phase whether to opt for glass or steam. I think that a mixture of both might be the best for me.

At first, learning to fly instruments with glass was quite challenging, the data is presented in its rawest form, so you constantly have to interpret the numbers. After a while tho it becomes second nature, just like reading analog instruments. I find that my flying is a lot more precise on glass too, 50ft looks huge on a G1000 display for example. Another interesting thing is how numbers tend to jump all over the places in turbulence. Steam gauges usually lag a bit more and give you the feeling of a smoother ride.

Agreed

Yep

Thomas Brewer I was just thinking the same thing

Umm, I think you might have missed the point of the video, one is really good for training, one is really good for SA and keeping you safe after training! :)

No, don't think I did. 2.33 minutes of discussion about "go see my online course", virtually nothing on the subject at hand. Dude I like your videos, but don't know what you were trying to accomplish here.

Ummm, They have a service to teach people to fly....if I was an American I would go to them in a heartbeat, it’s a great series of videos they offer! They do a great job!!!! Keep up the great videos !

Scott Franco scott, you missed the entire point! Take a look at the eyeballs during the scans. That's the point that he's making. the scans for glass, require far less eyeball movement than six pack. And even if this video had a of been an advertisement for ground school, which it wasn't, his online Ground School, much like his other videos, are absolutely fantastic.

And now you are piling on without even really reading what I wrote. I like FLY8MA's channel. I don't even care that he is promoting his online course, or whether it is free or paid. But this video is clickbait to get people to sign up to the online course and does not do what the title says, which is, and I QUOTE: Glass Cockpit Vs. Steam Gauge | What's Better? Sorry, it just does not do that (answer the question). Its an ad for the online course. PS. "I think you missed the point" in real English means "you are an idiot".

you are not going to be working on a screen when you fly... Those studies are targeted at people who might be 8+ hours in a screen, doing intensive focused work or relaxed activities.. still, "living" on the monitor.

Well, if you want to be like that, you could go further and say that REAL pilots flew with what few instruments existed before the invention of gyros, or even pitot-static systems. Most engine-related things were the same but for flight instruments, perhaps their ASI was a wind-pushed vane on a wing strut, and their turn coordinator was a piece of string glued at the lower end to the windshield, with no altimeter, VSI, or attitude indicators. Gyro-driven and pitot-static steam gauges make you lazy :D. Seriously, the glass has the exact same 6-pack as the steam gauges (plus a few helpful extras like rate bars, a moving map, etc.), they're just all superimposed in the same place so you can scan several simultaneously and don't have to look nearly as far away to see the others. So from a user-friendliness perspective, glass is clearly superior to steam, just as steam was clearly superior to the nothing that came before it. Glass simply makes it easier and faster to do the same scan as with steam, plus gives you even more info while you're doing it. All good. The biggest issue is what happens when you have gremlins. Glass, having way fewer moving parts, is more mechanically reliable than steam and both are equally affected by loss of pitot-static. But if you have a major electrical problem but pitot-static is still good, you can lose ALL the glass while the steam gauges are still working (although you might have to hold a flashlight in your mouth to read them). So, they compliment each other as they have different failure causes, so it's nice to have both. Thus, I agree that steam gauges are NOT going away, although I think it's more likely for them to fail than the glass.

TheBullethead agree

Steam has already gone away, it´s basically old planes still using it and a lot of people throw in a G1000 as soon as they can on their old plane.

This is great till it fails.

I definitely much prefer Glass panel as there is more information, plus we’re in a new era of aviation. But I still somewhat enjoy taking the steam gauges every now and then.