Whats best? Manual E6B or Electronic?

"Airbus" wrote in message ...
If you really want to hone your skills, try using mental calculations. In
much of Europe the E6-B's are little known or used, but student pilots are
encouraged to learn simple mental calculations to solve
speed/distance/time and wind correction problems.

Here's a French link:
http://reseau.xplane.free.fr/formules/formules.html

Other contributors here certainly know English language links to the same
stuff. No need to be a math whiz - memorizing a few formulae will allow
you to do this stuff quickly in your head.

European instructors will tell you that using a calculator, mechanical or
electronic, is too much of a head-down exercise for VFR flight, and
represents a danger. . .



Google:
http://translate.google.com/translat...005-02,GGLD:en

http://tinyurl.com/3y5d79

Here is an English sentence :

Four score and seven years ago, our Fathers set forth on this continent a new
nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are
created equal.

Translated to German via AltaVista BabelFish:

Vor vier Kerbe und sieben Jahren, unsere Väter legen auf diesem Kontinent eine
neue Nation fest, begriffen in der Freiheit, und der Angelegenheit eingeweiht,
daß alle Männer verursachtes Gleichgestelltes sind.

And back to English :

Before four notch and seven years, our fathers specify a new nation on this
continent, understood in the liberty, and the affair inaugurated that all men
are caused on an equal footing.

And this is a simple example, using English and German - which are similar
languages! When you go further - English and Korean, for example, you get this
:


It sleeps equally all men create and before 87 years, our father in this
continent is thought inside freedom, that, it gives it departs in proposition
and the new nation.

So much for Internet translations . . .

"Airbus" wrote in message ...
Here is an English sentence :

Four score and seven years ago, our Fathers set forth on this continent a new
nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are
created equal.

Translated to German via AltaVista BabelFish:

Vor vier Kerbe und sieben Jahren, unsere Väter legen auf diesem Kontinent eine
neue Nation fest, begriffen in der Freiheit, und der Angelegenheit eingeweiht,
daß alle Männer verursachtes Gleichgestelltes sind.

And back to English :

Before four notch and seven years, our fathers specify a new nation on this
continent, understood in the liberty, and the affair inaugurated that all men
are caused on an equal footing.

And this is a simple example, using English and German - which are similar
languages! When you go further - English and Korean, for example, you get this
:


It sleeps equally all men create and before 87 years, our father in this
continent is thought inside freedom, that, it gives it departs in proposition
and the new nation.

So much for Internet translations . . .



Still fun though, and most can get the gist of it. Certainly better than 10 years ago...

And also, most do not go from a known language, to unknown, and back to known.

In article ,
says...


So much for Internet translations . . .



Still fun though, and most can get the gist of it. Certainly better than 10
years ago...

And also, most do not go from a known language, to unknown, and back to known.





Fun, I agree.
It will get in the way though in a context like aviation, where words have
highly specific meanings. The attentive reader will probably understand that
speed indications in "nodes" are referring to "knots" (though a doubt may
linger) but on encountering the expression "clean speed" the reader may think
we are talking about flaps and gear positions, and not realize the article is
simply referring to TAS . . .