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

Pilot Institute

You can also use it for unit conversions, estimating wind correction angles, and figuring out density altitude. Using the Air Density Windows and the Baseplate The disk also features cut-out windows designed for air density-related calculations. and read the altitude shown. Thats your true airspeed.

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In Defense of the Paper Nav Log

Air Facts

To properly use your performance charts, you need to be able to figure out the pressure altitude, and understand what that meansagain, the one and only time during your training that this is strictly required. From pressure altitude, you can move to density altitude by correcting for non-standard temperature.