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outer ring the pilot can find how far the aircraft will travel in any given number of minutes. Looking at the inner ring for minutes traveled and the distance traveled will be above it on the outer ring. This can also be done backwards to find the amount of time the aircraft will take to travel a given number of nautical miles. On the main body of the flight computer it will find the wind component grid, which it will use to find how much crosswind the aircraft will actually have to correct for.
57:, but many professional pilots still carry and use flight computers. They are used during flight planning (on the ground before takeoff) to aid in calculating fuel burn, wind correction, time en route, and other items. In the air, the flight computer can be used to calculate ground speed, estimated fuel burn and updated estimated time of arrival. The back is designed for wind correction calculations, i.e., determining how much the wind is affecting one's speed and course. 64:
The crosswind component is the amount of crosswind in knots that is being applied to the airframe and can be less than the actual speed of the wind because of the angle. Below that the pilot will find a grid called crosswind correction, this grid shows the difference the pilot needs to correct for
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One of the most useful parts of the E6B, is the technique of finding distance over time. Take the number 60 on the inner circle which usually has an arrow, and sometimes says rate on it. 60 is used in reference to the number of minutes in an hour, by placing the 60 on the airspeed in knots, on the
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Another very useful part is the conversion scale on the front outer circle, which helps convert between Fahrenheit and Celsius. The back of the E6B is used to find ground speed and determine how much wind correction it needs.
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because of wind. On either side of the front it will have rulers, one for statute miles and one for nautical miles on their sectional map.
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in widespread use in the 21st century. Sometimes it is called by the make or model name like
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An E6B flight computer commonly used by student pilots.
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Index

Flight management system
slide rule
aviation
analog computers
E6B
flight training
CAS-TAS conversion
An E6B flight computer commonly used by student pilots.
nm-km conversion on a CRP-5 flight computer
Index of aviation articles
Wind triangle
Dead reckoning
Flight Management Computer
"Knemeyer Dreieckrechner"
the original
ISBN
1-56027-421-2
Categories
Analog computers
Military cartography
Flight computers

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