Terry Holowaty, Aircraft Maintenance Engineer
My Job
Reliable technology
In aviation they tend to rely on technology that they know works.
A larger aircraft, like an Airbus, will have some of the newer technologies that have been proven but they won't put in a lot of unknown technologies that they can't rely on yet.
The reliable, older technology is easier to understand and to work with and so it's not too difficult keep up with. Any change in technology is usually gradual.