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Quiz: Flight Planning with Sporty’s E6B

Flight Training Central

The electronic E6B is equally useful when in the airplane, to help determine actual winds aloft, true airspeed, fuel burn, and descent planning. Find the density altitude of an airport with a field elevation of 843, an air temperature of 7 Celsius, and a barometric pressure of 29.83. 926 175 167 Correct! knots Correct!

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

Pilot Institute

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. Be careful interpreting the scales. Thats not all.

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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.