Thanks for posting this, Robert.
a couple of years ago I took a new friend for a ride in my Cruisemaster after he told me he'd never flown a plane without glass. Turns out he'd decided on a flying career while in college and at that point, had never flown a plane. He goes to a national flight school, enrolls in a private/ifr combo program (I had never heard of that) and flew one of the restart Cessnas with an all-glass panel. Went all the way to atp in newish planes with glass, flew charter stuff with glass, and was then flying for some airline (cant recall which one now) that had a tech panel. Sure, he'd done partial panel stuff and had to demo hand flying for checks and all that, but although he'd heard the "just fly the plane" mantra many times he later admitted that it was just something they did during training and never really embraced it as fundamental practice. Our flight was interesting....
To his credit, he realized his pilot skills could be improved and bought into a partnership in a non-glass no A/P Skylane - not even an HSI.
When this kid makes Captain, he'll be awesome.
