• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning

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 .
Yikes! Doesn't any one here enjoy flying Glass; like Mr. Bill "Lionheart's" amazing Epic Dynasty, Victory, or Eaglesoft's Citation's & others???

Well, in reality, its a lot more enjoyable to have those toys in the cockpit, especially if you have an emergency, at night, in IMC and you need to get down fast safe... for FS, It seems (from the above pole) that most of you would stick with the simple basics for most filghts (i.e. at the level of the instrument panel of the A2A's Cub). To each their own...

Now, what was the reason for this pole; developer-market research?


Hebrews 11:6 "But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him."

Thank you very much.
Sincerely,
From,
James F. Chams
 
I like both. Gotta love a classic bird like a Fairchild or P-36 or Me-262 just as much as a modern glass cockpit bird.

I chose mix.

:ernae:
 
JamesChams said:
... for FS, It seems (from the above pole) that most of you would stick with the simple basics for most filghts (i.e. at the level of the instrument panel of the A2A's Cub)...
Click to expand...

Analog != simple. Analog = Analog.
 
Mr. Paul "PRB"
PRB said:
Analog != simple. Analog = Analog.
Click to expand...
That was not meant to be a bash of any kind... A "simple gauge" is just an industrial term. "Complex gauges" (another industrial term) are commonly combined gauges like EHSI/RMI in one unit/display, a "Simple Gauge" would be one that display's only a specific item, i.e. Airspeed.

Also, "the simple basics" refer to the standard 6 pack. And, no, I'm NOT referring to bear. :icon_lol:

BTW: I like the look of both analog/steam/pressure gauges and glass displays, too...but in a real aircraft, I've preferred GLASS for overall usefullness/functionality over anything else.:wiggle:


Hebrews 11:6 "But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him."

Thank you very much.
Sincerely,
From,
James F. Chams
 
lol yeah the last two sound a little similar, sorry about that, what I meant to ask as a 3rd option, aircraft that have a combination of analog and glass, such as a 767, or early PC-12s, king airs, GA birds with steamgauges but with a nice moving map stack. The fourth option was for if you have different moods for any of the above three options :) I myself chose the 4th option. Bill's Dynasty has become my default touring/exploring plane but I do enjoy hopping in the P-47 or the RealAir Scout for good analog fun.

Good answers tho :)
 
JamesChams said:
... BTW: I like the look of both analog/steam/pressure gauges and glass displays, too...but in a real aircraft, I've preferred GLASS for overall usefullness/functionality over anything else. ...
Click to expand...

If I was flying a real plane, I would probably learn to love glass cockpits in a hurry. They were invented for a reason, after all, that being ease of workload through the display of usefull "stuff". I think computer driven digital displays in real airplanes are very cool looking indeed. But FS still has a hard time simulating those things. The FS versions often have bigger fonts than the real ones, which looks "unrealistic", but is necessary because the real ones have tiny characters that would be hard to read in an FS plane. The best ones I've seen so far in FSX are Lionhearts "star ships". Those are great.
 
anthony31 said:
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.
Click to expand...

I'm wondering how you land.....
 
anthony31 said:
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.
Click to expand...

But what if it's blue stuff both above and below? :d
 
I chose analog. The aircraft I like to fly the most came out before glass.
And except for the Garmin GPS mounted on the panel there is no glass
in the Cessna I'm allowed to fly for real sometimes.
:ernae:
 
PRB said:
If I was flying a real plane, I would probably learn to love glass cockpits in a hurry. They were invented for a reason, after all, that being ease of workload through the display of usefull "stuff". I think computer driven digital displays in real airplanes are very cool looking indeed. But FS still has a hard time simulating those things. The FS versions often have bigger fonts than the real ones, which looks "unrealistic", but is necessary because the real ones have tiny characters that would be hard to read in an FS plane. The best ones I've seen so far in FSX are Lionhearts "star ships". Those are great.
Click to expand...

Even with the bigger fonts, I find glass displays in FSX hard to read, and usually opt for analog. In a real aircraft it'd probably be another story. Though there are also respects in which an analog display can give you richer information - a dial-faced altimeter, for example, that lets you see at a glance your altitude relative to other altitude reference numbers. The advantage of glass is the integration of several different pieces of information, not necessarily the clarity with which each individual "piece" is displayed.
 
Real or simulated, it's analogue all the way! (Tho for real IFR a Garmin 430 is nice) G1000 is too much of the flashy lights lots of buttons toy that could keep low hours VFR pilots eyes inside, or thinking they can get through weather they shouldn't enter because the mighty garmin knows all lol..

Recently purchased ConcordeX for flightsim, absolutely loving the steam instruments, INS nav with no GPS whatsoever!
 
Bjoern said:
But how do you know if it's dry or wet?
Click to expand...
Simple... if you see bubbles, you've had it and its time to haul @$$ out of the aircraft.
icon10.gif


This is where the glass helps the most... just BLUE and BROWN so, there's no confusion there. LOL :icon_lol: Glad to see others who like glass, here. :)



Hebrews 11:6 "But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him."

Thank you very much.
Sincerely,
From,
James F. Chams
 
For real world flying, I like the glass. However, generally I have found functionality in FSX more difficult with the glass avionics than the analog versions.

Ken
 
The planes I fly for my day (night?) job have full glass cockpits. A tremendous increase in navigational and operational capability (fueled by the capable flight managment computer and GPS).

However I generally agree with Ken here as the screens in FS are just too small to be of real use. Remember just one of the screens should be almost the size of a monitor rather than smaller than a postage stamp. Also many of the functionalities of the computers of such systems and the capable autopilots are not there to fully mimic the systems.

FS allows us to fly many historic aircraft and explore a world of simpler times and simpler machinery. I did fly a Supercub around the arctic for many years with nothing but a compass that pointed East and a map.....

Cheers: T
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top