I gotta post something, so I’ll post the mechanical calculator that the flight school wanted me to get. How it works is that you can set ratios in the dial and multiply them. In this picture, it’s 60:10 (or 60:1.0) so I can take any number from the inner circle in minutes and find out how many hours that is equal to on the outer circle.
There are also other things on this calculator, including a wind vector calculator, and charts. Most pilots don’t use these anymore, but they still wanted me to know how to use one
Not just ANY calculator. But something that will literally save your life when the electrics on the plane are blown and you need to get to that little airport via dead reckoning.
Flight computer
Can it run doom?? :)
It can plot a course for Mount Doom
Hey… do yourself a favor and get a CX-3 flight computer. They’re allowed on the written. Don’t worry, you can thank me later 😜
Professor Staecker?
I’m sorry, I’m either not that person or don’t get the reference
Chris Staecker is a math professor with a couple of YouTube channels- one of which is dedicated to exploring analog adding machines.
I misremembered his video about the E6B flight computer (yt tracker removed)
It’s in my to do list to buy
I hate these things with a passion. When I did flight school my instructor made me use one nonstop. I’ve never used it since but I still being it as a backup
And you will never use it again after your ppl. Thank god!
That’s the same one I have, even here in Australia.
Awesome piece of kit
I have the same one. Still useful for density altitude, TAS, and time distance calculations. I still use it after all these years. Not the wind chart though. Fuck that noise!
I freaking love mechanical calculators!
