Do you find that instrument panels and for that matter engine cowlings should be about 6 inches lower to give better visibility over the nose?”
“Do you find that instrument panels and for that matter engine cowlings should be about 6 inches lower to give better visibility over the nose?” Since I am very short, that would have been helpful! However I learned to make due with a very comfy portable cushion to fix that problem. Once I moved up to light twins like the Piper Aztec, I found that most had excellent seat adjustments and visibility for petite pilots was much better compared to the Piper and Cessna singles. “Do you find dual – needle altimeters difficult to read without making errors and are the glass displays of modern GA aircraft more difficult to read, especially airspeed?” Since I learned on the standard two hand ‘steam gauge’ altimeter, I never really though of them as difficult to read. That’s just all I had, so I suppose I figured it out. I have not had the luxury of being able to fly a glass cockpit GA aircraft but don’t think it can be that difficult once you get used to it. I flew over 5,000 hours on ‘steam gau
