Jay Honeck wrote:
It's not that we're not sticking to the subject, it's that we're trying to
save you from buying an utterly useless device.

I agree. We were given a Sporty's E6B as a gift during our student
days. Not sure whether it was allowed during the written test, we just
continued to use our whiz wheels. I think we turned it on once just to
check out the features and had never used it. I don't even where we
put the darn thing in the house (probably under piles of aviation books
& magazines ;-)).

We purposedly flew without GPS for over a year after getting our PP
certificates to practice our pilotage and dead reckoning skills for
cross country trips. Good old whiz wheel was used for the planning.
Enroute, wind corrections were adjusted mainly with pilotage. I find it
easier to use some mental math tricks than to fiddle with any
calculation devices.

I agree that the GPS simpliflies eveyrything in flying. BTW, I just
checked Sporty's E6B price at $59.95. This is pretty close to the
price of a non-aviation GPS nowaday!

Hai Longworth