701151 wrote on Mar 22^nd, 2011 at 10:49pm:

The 757/767 aren't steam guage planes! I don't like it when people call gyros 'steam gauages' they have nothing to do with steam! People just want to make fun of them as being old like a steam locomotive. These gyros are stil great and planes have only been mass produced with glass cockpit for 5 or 6 year now.

I never called the 757/767 "steam gauge" planes, I simply stated that Captain Sim's specialty seems to be the steam gauge airplanes, and I say this because of the 707,727, 737 (upcoming), C-130, and B52 are all non-glass cockpit aircraft, and in my opinion are their best products.  And the term "steam gauge" is just a slang term for non-glass gauges in aircraft because they look like steam gauges.  And the gyro gauges you refer to only consist of the ADI and HSI in the early Boeings as far as I know, so most of the gauges are not gyro operated.   Glass cockpits have also been mass produced for much longer than 5-6 years.  My stepfather was an engineer for Honeywell and was involved in avionics production for over 30 years, and I know he worked on glass avionics for much longer than 5-6 years.