This white paper looks at the many advantages and the few potential pitfalls of upgrading avionics control panels to a new glass cockpit. This paper details the many components of a glass cockpit and how they improve on reliability, cost-effectiveness, and ease-of-use. It also examines the cockpit’s needs for electrical redundancies, ruggedization, and information dissemination. It also presents multiple solutions for operational flight programs seeking to upgrade or modernize their control panels to a glass cockpit.