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E6B Made Easy: A Beginner’s Step-by-Step Guide

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Key Takeaways The E6B is a mechanical slide rule that helps pilots make calculations useful for flight planning Use the slide rule side to calculate time, speed, fuel, and air density calculations. Learn how to use the wind side to find groundspeed and wind correction angles. Say youre going on a cross-country flight.

Groundspeed

Groundspeed True Airspeed Density Altitude Knot

My Near Death Experience

Air Facts

APRIL 29, 2024

A pit stop at North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina (KCRE) was planned, and after a weather briefing, I filed an IFR flight plan. At the current groundspeed, I believed it shouldn’t be of much concern unless the cell began producing lightning. We were wheels up around 1:30pm. The IAF was looming closer.

Descent

Descent Approach Weather AGL

Aviator Connection

E6B Made Easy: A Beginner’s Step-by-Step Guide

My Near Death Experience

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