Why is it that the CAA require the use of 1950’s slide rule technology in exams,
Even in the United States, they still use the Circular Slide Rule to enable students to visualise how to lay off drift due to wind. The great commercial flight schools there are also now ordering aircraft with individual round instruments, with later conversion to Primary Flight Displays as they think it gives ab initio students a better appreciation of the fundamentals.
Likewise, UK driving schools all use manual gear change cars...
My wife had one of these fancy and expensive electronic flight calculators. One day, we were planning a trip and I gave her a race, to see who would be finished sooner in preparing our Plog. I won easily with my trusty CRP 5, but then I teach with it daily.
Apparently, in the Far East, clerks with an abacus can do quicker calculations than the average Joe with and electronic calculator.
TOO