That problem didn't happen when I went on a glass bird =3

Well it didnt really fail but you know how flight training is, they throw you fake failures all the time to see what you do,

Ouh yeah

that look like darth vader bathroom lol

mmmmm G-1000

No, Avidyne.

Man, I am stuck in the 30s, this glass stuff is wow, but I can't make heads or tails on the systems yet.

Yeah, they're very wonderful and awesome. I love glass cockpits. lol

I liked the old Bob Stevens cartoon in Private Pilot twenty-five years or so back. Showed a salesman showing off a new "glass panel" with Donald Duck on display in both panels...

There should be a switch that lets you use the MFD in place of the PFD, should it go inop. That way, you don't lose all those instruments. I fly the G1000 in C-172s that I rent from my local FBO. It looks like a similar system, but I do see differences. I really love it, but I always bring a hand-held GPS just in case there is that ever-feared complete electrical failure (Oh, don't say those words!). I actually know a guy who lost the entire electrical due to a lightning strike in an Archer. Glass panel is supposed to be fool-proof in that it has a redundant battery and everything is isolated with buses and breakers. But I'll tell you now-- It doesn't matter how many buses or how many breakers you have. If you get struck by lightning, assuming you're still airborne with the prop spinning, you are going to have to contend with having ZERO electrical. If you're in the clouds IFR with such a failure you'll have a compass, airspeed indicator, and attitude indicator, with no means to navigate other than dead reckoning (emphasis on the dead)... can't exactly shoot an approach with that! If you have a hand held GPS or radio, then you have something to go by. Otherwise, you may be watching the hands on your watch to count down how much fuel you think you've got. And hopefully you'll have enough time to contemplate your life.

Well I'm pretty well used to the old sixpack setups that these new fangled glass cockpits mess with my mind :P

Like these are the panels I'm used to.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/620404/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1121649/

Yep. I got my private pilot in one like these. I switched schools and now I'm flying G1000's (for cheaper, actually!). My instrument check ride is next week; wish me luck! G000's are AMAZING for instrument work. Set the AP to NAV and it practically does all the work for you, loading the next waypoint as it comes up! It even shows holding pattern entries. Remarkable engineering went into it. And I wouldn't trade the moving traffic map for anything! Nothing compares to hearing a computerized voice call "Traffic!" moments before a near miss. Ahh, yep.

Heh, Goog luck. Actually my checkride isnt far off either, just one stage check with the school and then off to the examiner :P

Then, I'll wish you good luck, too, friend.

You work for the DOT? Interesting job =3

Nope, although I give you internet points for using the FAA's N-registry looker upper. No the planes are all registered to Georgia DOT now but they are all school planes, I'm just in flight school right now :P