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Why do we still teach ancient technology? The year is 2024. We have electronic calculators, and ForeFlight. Does learning an E6-B give a modern day student who is learning flight planning for the first time, a better understanding of flight planning? or is it a waste of time given our modern day technology? Do you guys think the E6-B should be thrown into the garbage can? Is it still worth learning given today's technology? If so...then why? Martha King's reasoning is to have a non electronic backup if the electronic calculator fails. What are your thoughts ? Any other reasons why a student pilot should take the time to learn how to use the manual E6-B whizz wheel? Anybody? Any airline pilots or want to comment? Anybody want to comment? Curious to hear your perspective.
10 years old but this video is exactly what I needed to find! Thank you! Also I love the "Start the stopwatch, Stop the startwatch" gave me a good laugh
R/A (Radius of Action) there is R/A from and back to same base. There is R/A from one base while landing at another or alternate base. There is R/A from moving aircraft carrier and back to same carrier. Many interception and R/A problems were worked in advance before ever taking flight according to a WWII vet I spoke with years ago. But not always. You could be on a normal flight or patrol and your radio operator would receive a message..." Radio direction finders have monitored radio traffic from ( Lat & Lon position )-possible enemy vessel. Fuel permitting, investigate at once " You had to know how to perform and calculate an entirely new flight, R/A plan from scratch under serious time pressure and scrap your existing plans, flying over shark infested waters in the South Pacific, you had better get it right. " Respect to that generation for sure. They had to be trained intensely to accomplish a mission without modern navigation aids.
Thank you so much. I was at Bakersfield airport yesterday flying an SR22T at night and couldn’t control the brightness. I searched and found your videos after the takeoff run up and figured it out thanks to you. I had a happy takeoff.
Slow Down! I can't see how anyone can follow your guidance. using your mouse to move around so fast, prevents anyone from being able to replicate your actions. Cant see how this helps...from a ATP pilot!
Cool, I am not a real pilot, I am a Flight Sim guy. I fly out of KFDK all the time. I look forward to watching this video to help me master the G-1000 in my sim aircraft.
If you really want to scan the aircraft band, just get a RS PRO-43 /or 26, etc, scanner and program in the published airport frequencies you want from your area/state. If you live in Ohio, etc, you can't hear LAX tower anyway. Unless you are in the cockpit, any ground based scanner will only hear a tower within 40-50 miles due to tower transmitter power limits. You can hear overhead airliner transmissions clear as day.
Only licensed pilots should have these radios, it's too easy to interfere with ATC coms by holding down the PTT button. BTW testing on numerous BNC rubber antennas show they are made to the high end of the band resulting in bad SWR's at the low end and seriously reduced range when you need it most! Manufacturers of those antennas save 5 to 10% in cost and materials when they refuse to make antennas that are centered in the com band!
It took me about 5 minutes into the video until I realized his audio is about 6 seconds ahead of his video. Was a little hard to follow until I figured that out!
"Quick question, what are the units on the inner wheel of the e6b? feet? minutes? gallons? statute miles?" "Yes" "Oh. What if the numbers I find are off by a factor of 10 or even 100?" "Just move the decimal point" "Is that safe?" "If you move it the right way, sure"
For exam purposes (no altimeter available to read PA from) for a given true altitude or field elevation: PA = {(Sea Level Pressure - 29.92) x 1000} + true altitude or field elevation if on ground.
