Do you prefer Glass or Analog instruments?

Do you prefer Glass instrumentation or Analog or a Both?

  • I enjoy flying with glass cockpits. G1000s, Moving Maps, EFIS...etc for my navigation needs.

    Votes: 6 3.8%

  • I enjoy flying with analog instruments. Compasses, CDI/HSI/ADF...etc for my navigation needs.

    Votes: 72 45.6%

  • I enjoy a mix. Some analog instruments combined with a GPS..etc for my navigation needs.

    Votes: 43 27.2%

  • Depends on my mood. Sometimes I like all glass, sometimes I like all Analog, sometimes both.

    Votes: 37 23.4%
  • Total voters
    158
  • Poll closed .
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pilottj

Blues is Life
Hey folks,
This is along similar lines to that great poll about warbirds with original insturments or with some more modern equipment.
 
Analog all the way since I'm into flight simming for the historic aviation.
I think I'm just a period micro mechanics fan.
Glass pits look just way too digital to me, nothing I want when I use the PC for past time. :)
Add to it that I have yet to see a glass panel that renders without flickering in FS.
All those straight lines on those digital displays are an anti-aliasing nightmare.
 
I like the "mix" option. Analog gauges with a GNS430/530 and modern radio stack. Gives you the option of navigating old school or using GPS.
 
Mathias said:
Analog all the way since I'm into flight simming for the historic aviation.
I think I'm just a period micro mechanics fan.
Glass pits look just way too digital to me, nothing I want when I use the PC for past time. :)
Add to it that I have yet to see a glass panel that renders without flickering in FS.
All those straight lines on those digital displays are an anti-aliasing nightmare.
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Yeah I think it will be really neat to see Bill's Dynasty parked next to your Taifun when you finish it. Two extremes in the GA Single spectrum of technology. But I would bet that in the days of the Taifun, it would be considered like the Dynasty of it's time, as it was at the pinnicle of GA technology then.

Cheers
TJ
 
Analog all the way for me as well. Glass gauges are just too easy, too coherent, too well thought out, and lacking soul in my opinion, silly though that may sound. Half the fun of flying for me is becoming "one" with an airplane, and a big part of meshing with a plane's personality is learning to interpret the idiosyncrasies of its instruments, it's part of what gives a plane its own unique character.

With the exception of response time in certain cases, the benefits of modern glass over traditional steam gauges are clear and overwhelming, but for some reason I just never seem to enjoy using them. I feel the same way about command line interfaces vs GUIs sometimes. ;)

-Mike
 
Glass is useful, there's no getting around that. I've spent many happy hours in the Accleration Hornet and the two payware F-16s. But I like the look of steam, and I really like the speed and fluidity of 3D gauges.
 
I've always enjoyed analog gauges but a good glass 'pit is great if it works properly - Bill's Epic for example. For me framerates are important and analog gauges generally provide higher frames than glass in the sim. If I want to fly light ga I prefer Carenado's mooney over Eaglesoft's Cirrus, partly because the Cirrus is too hard on fps.

LPXO
 
Nobody voted for all glass yet! :icon_lol: I voted annal-log. But I have a couple of Lionheart's glass star-ship cockpits and they are very cool. In truth I should have voted for "mix", but mostly I like the "steam gauges".
 
peter12213 said:
I like analog gauges, but I'd be lost litterally without my GPS at times lol!
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heh, I try to avoid using that GPS - often with predictable results. last night's flight was 600nm over ice-bound Canada, Manfred's Super Connie using the few and far between radio nav stations for guidance. Approaching "arrival time" based on DR and having been out of radio nav contact for some hours (suspecting I'd drifted 30-40 miles North) I started surfing the stations looking for some clue of my location. Eventually picked up a VOR, which placed me 180NM South of intended track! Haha, love the challenge of FS...
 
I much prefer the look and feel of analog, although there's no way I could navigate with them. So analog + GPS, on the rare occasions that I decide to fly anywhere particularly far away.
 
GPS is mandatory.


Other than that, I like digital gauges...even if it's just an early digital EFIS à la 733 or MD-88.
 
Real flying? I'll take a G1000 every time. Simulated flying? What ever is appropriate for the airplane except that I do want some kind of GPS, hand held is fine.

Glenn
 
I thought the last two poll options were about the same...

Depends on the mood (ie you like to use a mix) - so I voted depends on the mood.

Not a whole lot of planes are purely glass for FSX. The F1 Mustang, ES SR22, and probably a few more are it. But what I do love is my Duke with its GNS430W!!! I can do every IFR approach with that thing I love it!

I do love the Mustang though - all the glass makes for fairly easy flight, especially on vatsim... with the STARS/DP's

The Eaglesoft Citation X is sorta mixture... cause it has the glass PFD's and MFD's but you still can use the NAV1 radios like an analogue gauge.

Then we have the Lotus L39 - beautiful aircraft! But I have the Reality XP GNS430W again in this one. Allows for seamless transition into a GPS/RNAV environment online ;)
 
I just stick the head out the window. If the blue stuff is above me and the green stuff below me then my attitude and bank must be right. If the green stuff below is moving along nicely then my airspeed must be right and if the green stuff isn't to in focus and detailed then me altitude must be right.
 
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