Glass Cockpit or Steam Gauges for Training?

Sam Weigel offers advice about the pros and cons of learning to fly in glass cockpit aircraft. [Screenshot]

It's easy to get enthralled by digital technology in the cockpit and choosing that option for instrumentation by going with a glass cockpit. But like choosing to fly a high or low wing aircraft, it's yet another aviator conundrum and there are distinct advantages to making the right choice. Sam Weigel breaks down the score and comes up with an innovative solution.

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Sam Weigel has been an airplane nut since an early age, and when he's not flying the Boeing 737 for work, he enjoys going low and slow in vintage taildraggers. He and his wife live west of Seattle, where they are building an aviation homestead on a private 2,400-foot grass airstrip.