The glass cockpit

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Cirrus Perspective and Perspective+ are Garmin integrated flight decks built for the airframe; the current G7 generation uses Garmin's touchscreen-controlled Perspective Touch+. Whatever the generation, the training problem is the same: the panel is not hard to operate, it is hard to stay ahead of.

What transfers badly

Heads-down time. The most common transition failing is a pilot who was perfectly safe on steam gauges spending far too long inside the box, configuring rather than flying.
Autopilot mode confusion. Knowing which mode is armed versus active, and what the aircraft will do next, matters more than knowing every page of the MFD. Most glass-cockpit incidents are mode awareness, not button ignorance.
Trusting the magenta line. A flight plan that loads cleanly is not necessarily the clearance you were given.

Learning it cheaply

Avionics fluency built in the air is expensive avionics fluency. Manufacturer-published courseware, PC-based trainers and a procedures trainer on the ground all cover the same ground for a fraction of the hourly cost, and most structured transition courses lean on them deliberately.

Failure modes are the point

Time spent on what the panel looks like when something is lost — a failed display, a failed AHRS, loss of air data, a partial-panel approach — is worth more than time spent on the moving map. This is also the part self-teaching reliably skips.