The Panel Is Doing More of the Work for the Newest Pilots

Flying reports that the current generation of cockpit design, with glass instrumentation and controls meant to be understood at a glance, is lowering the barrier for people learning to fly. For an owner the relevant point is not the student in a trainer but the front office of the airplane already in the hangar, which increasingly runs on the same logic. A display that presents the aircraft's state plainly is as much a feature of the flight department as of the flight school.

With reporting from Flying.