Whiz Wheel

[phrogdriver]

Just wait until you attempt the fun trick known as "math in the cockpit". ..

Almost as amusing as "math in public."

 

[Fly Navy]

Almost as amusing as "math in public."

"Math in Public" is ALWAYS good for a laugh. Unless you're the one doing the math...

 

[Whalebite]

REVERSE ENGINEER take some problems you have the answers to and figure it out that way, that helped me. Then try a few that you dont look at the answers for, and check yourself. Thats how i did it. O ya then do every one of the problems in the book.

 

[Banjo33]

Just wait until you attempt the fun trick known as "math in the cockpit". You'd be amazed how hard adding two numbers can become....

exactly why i've carried a calculator in my kneeboard since intermediates. how many times have i used it....i don't know that i ever have.

 

[Brett327]

exactly why i've carried a calculator in my kneeboard since intermediates. how many times have i used it....i don't know that i ever have.

That's more than a little unusual.

Brett

 

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[Flash]

It's the Navy version of a circular slide rule. Basically the same principle as an E6B, just a bit more compact and, IMO, easier to use. I believe the AF uses the E6B (along w/ the civilian world, of course), which is what Flash was referring to.

Except for figuring out TAS and crosswind, I always found I was MUCH faster using a calculator to figure stuff out. Back when I needed DA, I used charts in the back of NATOPS.

I didn't even know the thing had a name...... I jsut know that I preferred the Navy version better, even though it was not as precise......Still good enough for government work!

 

[Purdue]

Yup... that's the big knife-sharp hunk-o-fun that the AF issued us upon reporting to Vance... I am "so" looking foreward to our in depth navigation workshops...

Especially if people are saying this is an even bigger pain to use than the Navy Computer. Oh well... nothing's ever too tough.