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Old 17th Feb 2010, 03:26
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Tinstaafl
 
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I still use my Jepp CR5 (CR5 is the smallest one) after well over 25 years in things from piston singles to turboprops. With modern avionics I find I use it less but there are still some things I can calculate more quickly with it than by twiddling knobs & pushing buttons. Try calculating PNR or Crit Point with a GPS. Damned if I've figured out how to but my whiz wheel does it easily. Flying air ambulance over the N.Sea I used to have to do those calcs regularly. With my CR I could also use off-track DMEs to find along-track groundspeed - quite useful when out of range of on-track DMEs.
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