christopher.barker wrote:
>
> It's a fact Classic VW old chap: use of calculators in schools was bad
> enough to reduce youngsters' abilities to do sums in their heads. When
> I was teaching navigation (yes we used slide rules, circular ones called
> Dalton Computers), the young, budding navs had great trouble doing drift
> & groundspeed corrections in their heads because they had lost that part
> of their brains through underuse.
>
> I am considering taking my civilian airline pilot licences and they
> require the use of a circular slide rule (in the UK at least). So where
> can I buy one of those little Citizen watches?
>
> Chris (getting tired of sounding old).
>
Chris
I have the Seiko Pilots watch which also has the E-6 whiz wheel slide
rule around the bezel. It works great on the ground in good light,
however in flight I can't read it and calculate with it while keeping
the the airplane right side up (no autopilot). It's just to d**n small
for easy use. Stick to your E6-B with the nice big numbers.
W. J. Liles
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