my brain hurts...
Thursday, July 9, 2009
so one of the things that is a big part of my life at the moment is learning to fly!! (more on that later) for those in the know i've passed my GFPT and have just started to learn to nav... which is why my brain is hurting. last night i spent an hour or so playing with my newest toy, the E6-B flight computer. it's an incredible piece of computational ability (think old slide rule on steroids) and i can only imagine how much maths must have gone into creating something like this!
unfortunately ASA haven't put quite as much effort into their instruction manual as phillip dalton put into creating the original (wiki link). there are sooooo many different calculations that you can do, and i'm sure that once i've done them a few times it'll be all good, but starting out with the basic manual that comes with the flight computer is rather painful!!
have a look at the pic below... on this one device you can calculate fuel burn, wind correction, time en route, ground speed as well as convert all kinds of measurements and a bunch of other stuff that i don't even know yet! crazy...
pic stolen from wikipedia
scrawled bysteve at 1:19 PM
