Congrats Ken! In my previous life, I too went back and forth from true glass cockpits back to the older technology. I recall going from the Fokker-100 (my airline sent me to American's Pilot Training facility in Dallas for training!), back to the 737-200 that I had flown for nearly 6,000 hours in the 80s. I looked at all the switches, dials and knobs on the 737 and thought that I'd never be able to learn them all again after flying the clean and simple cockpit of the Fokker 100! I also recall listening to a very senior American Captain in the hotel van taking us to the training center one night as he was going from the 3-man, old cockpit 727 to the 2-man glass cockpit of the 767! He was sweating bullets over the modern technology and not having a Flight Engineer to rely on! So, don't laugh when you learn about the plumb bob in the nose wheel well, or when you realize that "the Big White Switch" will be your best friend in a complete electrical failure! Think of the MD-80 (and I'm pretty sure that your FAA Type Rating will say "DC-9"!) as your "Dad's jet" and enjoy it while you can!!

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