Your explanation of the 732 is great!

I see how important it is to start training with C172s, or VOR-VOR radio flying aircraft. The best skills come from the pilot's head, rather than the aircraft's computers. Replacing our future pilots with them only knowing the new technology (GPS, FMS...) is a recipe for disaster.

Hand-flying an airliner no matter the size, and using the radios for navigation is, in my way the more respected teaching plan, rather than right off the start using the FMS.

For a pilot-in-training nowadays, the touchscreen glass displays are simple. The digital EFB being very handy can change how the way ongoing generations of pilots view the correct way to fly. Is it a bad idea? Hmmm....

Palmdale_3Holer, you put it in perfect words, thank you.

This discussion has alot of input which next-gen pilots can use to "see" how the 737 was in its younger years. Years in which every decade added to the 737, more technology and safer practices. But in that, the reliance of computers and automatic route positioning (or GPS) is replacing the skills to proper flying.

I love the 732. It was my first plane as a passenger and was the only plane in which I had the opportunity to be inside the flight deck to view history.
I will never forget that flight when I was 8. My love for aviation grew 100-fold that day. Never will that chance come to ANY passenger nowadays! Looking back I realize how lucky I am.

Awesome topic-discussion guys!

Braden