How to Use an E6B Flight Computer for Ground Speed and Time En Route - AeroGuard Flight Training
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- Опубліковано 6 кві 2020
- Learn how to use the E6B Flight Computer to answer an FAA PPL Knowledge Test Question, with AeroGuard Flight Training Center. Use the Plotter to calculate the True Course and Distance between two points, and then use the Wind Side of the E6B to adjust for wind and calculate Ground Speed. Finally, learn how to use the Slide Rule Side of the E6B to calculate time en route and solve the question!
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How do you fit that thing in your flight bag!!?
A380 Pilot
So silly
It's a big bag
😂😂😂
you silly goofy monster
Thank you for helping 20 minutes before a ground school exam 🙌
Happy to help - good luck!
Simple Calculation but a bit complicated for beginners , Captain.
Thanks From Ghana.
Thank you. You're great teacher. I got lost in my cessna carrying my family of 5 and a dog. We were completely lost on how to get the distance to airfield. With this video. I and my family survived
Wow thank you so much I ended up in IFR while flying my 18 passenger Cirus . I found my way out of the clouds thanks to this video!
Hello, thanks for your comment! We're so glad you were able to find your way out of the clouds safely and found this video so helpful. Thank you!
You make it look so easy. I'm practically an idiot trying to get through ground school and I have difficulty trying to understand it all.
Really great explanation. Understandable, to the point and not too fast. Thanks
Great demonstration. Thank you!
Perfectly laid out vid. Thanks!
Thank you. Precised and straight to thw point
Thank you so much for sharing this video! Really helpful!
you really are saving me on my navigation class brother, greetings from Mexico ma friend
straight forward! nice vid
Thank You so much I understand how to use my E6B a more familiar now! God Bless You Guys!
That was actually really well explained. I'm currently reading through the Pooley's Book 3 on Navigation. As an aerospace engineering graduate, I find all the other elements are relatively simple. Navigation is too but it requires a lot more concentration and this explanation just avoids having to re-read several chapters.
Thanks so much for the kind words!
Great video with a great explanation, makes it simple and easy to digest!
Thanks for the feedback! Glad we could help you !
That helps me to make the Exame ;-) Thank you . Hello from Portugal
Thank you Eric! So much better than the textbook explanation. Taking my written in three days!
Hi Dustin! Thank you for your feedback! We are glad that you found this explanation helpful and were able to take advantage of these great study tools before your written exam! Good luck today - let us know how it goes!
Please reach out if you ever have any other questions or comments! Thank you.
Thank you so much Eric
Thanks. A big help for a student like me.
Thanks from Japan!That demonstration is so nice!It helped me to understand
thanks eric this was excellent and much needed
We're glad we could help!
Thankyou for this. I didn’t even notice the instructions on the E6B!
No problem, we're glad you found it useful!
Thanks! That was the first time I understood it.
You're very welcome! Glad we could help!
Nice explanation!
Thanks, William, we're glad you found it useful!
Thank you, I found this tool initially difficult to understand / unintuitive and this video helped a lot.
That's great to hear - glad you found it useful! Thanks, David
Thanks, from Germany
Love how well this is explained, next week is my PAR Exam.
Thank you, Keith - good luck next week!
It actually makes sense now
Thank you …you solved one of my problems
Thanks, we're happy to help!
God bless you
I was having trouble with these questions and this helped alot!! Thanks for this I will feel successful now 🙏🏼
We're glad we could help!
Where to purchase this giant E6B flight computer ? It barely fits into Cessna 172🤣!
Excellent video, thanks!! Do you have any videos on how to calculate the true course and NM?
We're glad you enjoyed it! Does this help - ua-cam.com/video/i3dBEi6cG_I/v-deo.html
@@flyaeroguard I'll take a look ty!
HELLO, WHERE CAN I GET SUCH BIG E6B COMPUTER. I AM TEACHING IN AN AIR SCOOL IN MEXICO. GOOD EXPLANATION
Wow, really good training video. TRY NOT TO SWALLOW SO MUCH, GET ANNOYING.
where can I get a flight computer of that size?
#THANK YOU JESUS 1st!!
So was there any reasoning for them listing the 18 knots of wind in the question?
Congratulations! In Brazil there is no flight computer of this size. How do I buy, because it would be great to have to teach navigation lessons here at school. Please if you can help me I would be grateful.
we were able to find this link for you but I'm not sure if they will be able to ship to Brazil. You'll have to reach out and ask them. www.tagpilotsupply.com/browseproducts/Classroom-Trainer-E6-B.html
Do DPEs still want you to use E6B or sectional during the flight portion of exam - when he or she give you instruction to divert to an alternate airport. to calculate the distance, time, fuel use, new heading etc or do they allow you to use GPS and foreflight?
You can use all available tools and resources at your disposal, so if you have ForeFlight, or similar Electronic Flight Bag, then you can use that to calculate your responses to a DPE. However, you always need a backup plan in case of failure. Your DPE could very well ask you “What if your iPad dies and you need to divert to another airport, how would you know if you have ample fuel?” You’ll need to provide a response that shows you have an acceptable back up plan. This backup plan may be your on-board GPS if ForeFlight or your iPad does not work, and if that is not responsive or not installed, a paper chart and E6B could be used - so you would have to know how to use all options.
@@flyaeroguard Thanks for the clarification. I got my PPL about 25 years ago and did it the old fashion way with "steam gauges" & E6B! I was curious what they do these days. Thanks again for the confirmation.
Is the plotter a separate device from the e6b or is there a plotter embedded in the e6b? Asking for a friend.........lol
Yes, please let your friend know that they are two separate devices! If you search for 'Flight Navigation Plotter' you should see many examples. Thanks!
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No mention of distance covered during climb. 39 min. is ok, but it should be less than 39 minutes to be more precise assuming 2 min. is strictly for climb. i would calculate from top climb.
But why does the Gleim E6b say that I need to set the MAGNETIC course under the true index?
Hi Joseph. In fact it doesn’t matter whether we use true north or magnetic north as the reference so long as both the wind direction and the flight course are using the same reference. In our example we had access to wind information that was given relative to true north similar to the winds on the Winds Aloft forecast. So either the wind and true course would need to be converted to magnetic direction using the magnetic variation depicted on the chart or we can just keep everything relative to true north. Hope that helps!
How to find true course without using plotter on the written test ?
HI Waheed, you would need to use a plotter during the test to measure the angle.
Hi, I didn't get the part of the 57 in distance ?
The 57 NM comes by measuring the distance between the two points in the question, Claxton-Evans County Airport and Hampton Varnville Airport. You would do this by using a Navigation Plotter like a ruler and measuring the distance between these points.
Why I read 47 instead of 57?
True Course?
Not sure how you got the true course of 045', I guess I am missing something obvious.
Hi, thanks for the question. This was hard to show virtually, but in real life you would use a Plotter, placed over the map, connecting the two points and aligned to a line of latitude to measure the angle and read off the 045.
For example like - www.amazon.com/Advanced-Pilot-Products-Premier-Rotating/dp/B08HPT588V
@@flyaeroguard lol, thx for the reply. I looked it up. It's quite easy once u know how. 😏
57*60/91 + 2 =39.5
Why 2nd 85 knots was not 185 knots? (You added 100 knots to the wind speed for some reason)
Hi Ken, thanks for the question, although I’m not sure where you are seeing 185 knots? When Eric set the E6B to 100 at 4m25s, this was just to make it simple to draw the ‘wind dot’ at 18 knots (shown as 118 knots, but what is important is the distance between the two being 18 knots from center). When Eric then adjusts the E6B for the answer he sets this wind dot at 85 knots which is from the original question.
@@flyaeroguard Thanks for the prompt reply. He is saying he is "choosing 100 for easy calculation". But let's say I choses 120 as the center dot then I'll mark at 138 (for 18 knots). Wouldn't that screw up the calculation? I understand he must be doing it right, but don't know how the answer could be same if the center point is just an option to choose from anywhere (may be that axis has no meaning), as we are choosing of our convenience.
@@thebestken If you did select 120 as center and 138 for the dot, that would also work perfectly well. The calculation comes into play only in step 2 when you pull the sliding card of the E6B down and put the dot over 85 knots from the question. All you’re doing initially is putting the dot 18 knots above center, which is why the base number (be it 100 or 120) doesn’t matter at that stage.
That thing is, sadly, the size I need to actually be able to read the numbers 😂
Why does Aeroguard teach ancient technology? The year is 2024. We have electronic calculators, and ForeFlight. Does learning an E6-B give a modern day student who is learning flight planning for the first time, a better understanding of flight planning? or is it a waste of time given our modern day technology? Do you guys think the E6-B should be thrown into the garbage can? Is it still worth learning given today's technology? If so...then why? Martha King's reasoning is to have a non electronic backup if the electronic calculator fails. What are your thoughts ? Any other reasons why a student pilot should take the time to learn how to use the manual E6-B whizz wheel? Anybody? Any airline pilots or want to comment? Anybody want to comment? Curious to hear your perspective.
Answer a question. Solve a problem.
I got 47 NM not 57 NM... I think there was a typo
The 57 NM comes by measuring the distance between the two points in the question, Claxton-Evans County Airport and Hampton Varnville Airport. You would do this by using a Navigation Plotter like a ruler and measuring the distance between these points. It can also be checked digitally using a tool like Foreflight.
@@flyaeroguard So i guess the map on a test supplement is not scaled right?
Definitely don't make this the first e6b video you watch. This is a little advanced and he's skipping the explanation of detailed steps.
Come back to it after a few other lessons first.
True,he is very good but not going into fundamentals
To much tuting