Also let's not forget that EASA, in its infinite wisdom, is expecting the ATPL students to use the whizzy thing during the exams.
Electronic flight computers are verboten.
Whilst I am no big fan of doing things 'for the sake of it' I think this statement sums up most of what is wrong with modern flight training. When I was a lad I was taught to
UNDERSTAND THE BASICS and to be able to work from first principles. Yes, electronic flight computers are not allowed and IMHO for a very good reason - people get used to putting in the figures the wrong way round and get the wrong answer and don't go back to basics of 'roughing-it-out' first or sense checking things. Computer says it is this therefore....
How many times have we seen GIGO* on perf-calcs feature in accident/incident reports?
So back to the thread...
CAS to me is Calibrated Airspeed - always has, always will. Other forms of airspeed have been
CORRECTED to Indicated, True, Rectified or whatever...
GTE - too kind
* = garbage in, garbage out