The advanced Cirrus cockpit demands advanced training. FITS hopes to fill that need.

by Ken Ibold

The joke in the computer industry is that, by the time you get your degree, the stuff you learned is already obsolete. Aircraft avionics are leading a charge that threatens to make such rapid obsolescence, too, part of aviation folklore.

The danger, of course, is not that innovation will exhaust the FAA’s tendency to stifle it, but that the training models that have worked acceptably well will prove to be insufficient in the not-so-distant future. …