"Luke Skywalker" wrote in
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On Apr 10, 6:50 am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Mxsmanic wrote
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Luke Skywalker writes:

In your hypothetical if I gave you a question like the one you
possed and you gave me the "ball park" answer my next question
"might" be, "if you wanted a more precise one how would you figure
it out?" and then that would go to the "computing" device...I
would probably feel it necessary (grin) to show you how to use an
E6B if all you have is an electronic one (kind of a whiz bang
thing)...

I don't think that would be a problem. The ASA E6-B I bought is
inexpensively made, though, and it's really hard to turn the
wheels; it would be a pain to actually have to fumble with it in a
cockpit.

How would you know, moron? You've never been in a cockpit.







A nice Pickett steel or bamboo circular slide rule would be
ideal--one of the rare situations in which a slide rule is probably
superior to a calculator (no electricity, extremely fast and easy
to use, more than accurate enough for its purpose, good at
simplifying specific problems). Alas! Nobody seems to make slide
rules any more. I saw a few other circular slide rules at the
pilot store, but they all looked like the same thing in different
materials, although I didn't look that closely.

I"ve done "part" of the oral in and around an airplane
before...but I dont like to. The environment is not controlled
etc... It usually doesnt do what I am trying to do and that is
put the applicant at "ease"...

The only time I'm at ease during an exam is if I don't care if I
pass.

Nobody else cares, that's for sure.

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LOL. Thats what I tell people everytime I sign off the white paper...


Kay...


Berti e