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Old 02-21-2018, 09:19 PM
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Exactly....... Nothing more boring than walking up to a nice RV at Oshkosh and looking at the panel to see nothing.... nothing but black shut off screens and a few switches..............
In that case I see lots of dollar$$$....and huge technological capabilities....

Those round clock dials look exactly the same as they did sixty years ago.....kinda boring, eh?

To each his own.
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Old 02-22-2018, 10:21 AM
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Those round clock dials look exactly the same as they did sixty years ago
Which is exactly the point. I like a mix of the old and new, the best of both worlds. I've got a whiskey compass too!
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Old 02-22-2018, 11:15 AM
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Exactly....... Nothing more boring than walking up to a nice RV at Oshkosh and looking at the panel to see nothing.... nothing but black shut off screens and a few switches..............
.....and like looking into the cockpits of new turbo-props, corporate jets, Boeings, Airbuses......, all with glass screens and a few switches.

From my years of experience flying glass panels since the mid 90s, I felt very comfortable equipping my RV with only glass displays. My experience is that the glass has been a lot more reliable than the iron gages I used to fly with back in the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s.
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