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Originally Posted by TheChitterneFlyer
IO540
Interesting that you consider your circular slide rule to be something that becomes redundant upon gaining your PPL!
IO540 is well known for believing that all calculations and navigation should be done electronically and all "whizz-wheels" should be buried at midnight in an unmarked grave.
I certainly think he's wrong, but please don't wind him up - it's not worth it.
G
By all means learn the nav theory behind the Whizz wheel for initial training but when you enter the real world, no one in their right mind would prat about with something which is such a pain to use (effectively impossible en route in the cockpit) and so inherently liable to misuse. We can't stay in the caves clubbing tigers and our women indefinitely, and we certainly can't fly commercially using little plastic wheels. You will eventually get real and get something far simpler, far more accurate and more realiable. It is called a GPS, and has now even been heard of by NATS. (Cue for discussion along lines of rubbish in equals rubbish out etc but you will put much more rubbish into a whizz wheel with much more difficulty and likelihood or error)