My first flight with touch screens

[dppintr2]

On the last day of the year we made a flight with a Cessna 182 which was fitted with a glass cockpit with touch schreens last summer.

Glass cockpit with touch screens

A report with pictures can be found here

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[LesGawlik]

You guys must be smoother pilots than I am. Most days I can barely grab the radio knobs without my hand flying all over the panel. I do have an iPad on the yoke in front of me, and I can use that to enter data by touch screen which I relay to the panel. If I make a mistake, I can easily delete what I put into FF on the iPad. The pink lines on the HSI stay the same until I press Send to Panel. When I get an AP, my guidance won't change until I send the data. I don't think I would like to enter guidance data directly in a touch panel.