ETA? My thumb is 6 mins or 10nm. Best thumb in the world. Couldn't live without it :8 Another handy (geddit?) thing is from the end of my thumb to the tip of my little finger is 60nm and the chord of my hand x-ways is 30nm (just measured it, hadn't noticed before).

No rude ripostes please :E

Most useful bits:

Large paper clips for keeping the chart under control.

Large yellow stickies with the plog on.

Everything else is wasted fuel when flying a Robbie.

And if you're into quaint things like planning then the CRP has to rank a top tool...:ouch:

Planning? Is that the bit when you say "has anyone got a map?"

I like all this inverted snobbery anti-kit stuff, evren though we've all secretly got cupboards full of useless aviation tat as featured on the related thread, but a hobby isn't a serious hobby unless it requires expensive purchases of very specialised items which you never use.

I had a phase of toying with that, then realised that it was beginning to remove features from my chart too. Like Stokenchurch mast, for example.

You can always tell the pilots with the super-duper shiny £999.99 + vat GPS here. 'ETA [insert daft remote little waypoint no one's heard of] at 42, 17 seconds.'

Just like me with my Swatch watch and Fisher Price abacus (VAT free from Early Learning Centre) really... :rolleyes: ;)