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Hydro Junkie
E6B? Is that the wheel card used to calculate wind drift and true ground speed? If so, learning to use that was a joke due to the simplicity. Just remember, I'm going back at least 40 years on that one so not remembering the number IS TO BE UNDERSTOOD since I haven't seen one in that long.
Just had a thought. I've seen several You tubers post about their flying privately owned aircraft. What seems to be a common element now days is using an Ipad with nav apps. Seems like they don't want to fly anymore, just punch in what their apps tell them to
Yep, that’s the one. I’ve got a nice aluminum one, but they made them out of all sorts of materials. All it is is a slide rule shaped in a circle.
And you aren’t far off about the newer generation of pilots. I’ve seen the younger ones turn down employment at my prior airline because they only flew the CRJ200, which has an FMS system, was otherwise a manual airplane (no vertical nav, for example). They would take the job at a carrier that paid less, because they wanted to fly an airplane with ‘all the gadgets’. You should see how they are when they get into a BIG airplane (like the B767).
Even the FAA has finally recognized that basic airmanship skills are very much lacking in the new-hire airline world. There is way too much reliance on automation. Personally I have the same issue with R/C and all of these stabilization systems. They have their place, but not in the training environment.
R_Strowe