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By: 29th June 2005 at 15:44 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I enjoy using the whizzwheel but my current planning regime of
1) Rough it out on Navbox
2) Transfer it to the chart to look for problems
3) Squirt it into the GPS
4) Run off the short PLOG when I've got the day's winds
Means I never get to use it these days :(
Moggy
By: 29th June 2005 at 16:22 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I thought you were going to ask about ... wait for it ... swinging propellers.
I dusted off my whizwheel the other day when I decided I would do a flight without the GPS for a change. I was very chuffed to find I still knew how to drive it.
Now for the next great question: wind up or wind down?
By: 29th June 2005 at 16:42 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Bah... well that made me choke on a ginger knob...
BARNOWL
By: 29th June 2005 at 17:08 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Whizwheel, every time. Partly because I don't have a GPS, but also out of choice. I'd hate to find that I've forgotten how to do the basics...
By: 29th June 2005 at 19:25 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Hand Job or Batteries
I can't be the only one who found this humourous!!!
By: 29th June 2005 at 19:48 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Come on! :rolleyes:
I was suprised you even had to ask! Hand job of course. :D
By: 29th June 2005 at 20:01 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-The whizzweel is an amazing piece of equipment really. So simple to use yet so effective. There aren't many other pieces of equipment which have changed so little in over 60 years that you can say that about.
By: 29th June 2005 at 20:45 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I can't be the only one who found this humourous!!!
You weren't, but I was at work when I saw it :)
By: 29th June 2005 at 20:47 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Bah... well that made me choke on a ginger knob...
BARNOWL
Ginger nut, surely. OR Hob Nob. What you've described is Chris Evans.
By: 29th June 2005 at 22:06 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Bloody hell! Family forum you know! :D:D:D:D:D
By: 30th June 2005 at 07:01 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Certainly whizzwheel, I have no GPS either hence whizzing all the way :)
Dean
By: 30th June 2005 at 12:56 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Whizwhat? ;) Flying here in the States, the company I work for uses www.fltplan.com . Amazing what that website can do. I still have my old whizwheel, but it rarely gets used.
By: 30th June 2005 at 12:59 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I find whipping out a whiz wheel to be just as quuick as messing around getting computers to open and applications to start.
I'd be interested to know how many people are using GPS as primary navigation?
By: 30th June 2005 at 13:25 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-With charter flying, it is much quicker to use an internet service. I can have full Nav logs (for multiple legs) based on the current wind forecast, weather brief and Notams in my hand within a minute or two. Also once that is done, you can have the flight plan filed and in the system with a click of the mouse. What is amazing is that the service is free and you just need a web browser.
As for GPS.. yes, we use it as our main source of navigation backed up with conventional navaids.
When flying the 172 I use the GPS, also backed up with conventional navaids. I mainly fly it in the local area (giving rides usually), so navigation is not a big issue.
By: 30th June 2005 at 23:38 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-www.fltplan.com.Hi Paul. That website is awsome. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.
By: 2nd July 2005 at 10:35 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Still use the whizzwheel. Doesn't need batteries and will go on for ever.
What never ceases to amaze me is what a mish mash of different measurements we have to deal with: altitude in feet; runway length in metres (or feet); distance in nautical miles; airspeed in mph, kph or knots; fuel in litres; tank capacity in US Gallons....
I was back seat in the new Yak on Wednesday/Thursday, (we got stuck at Little Gransden after some maintenance over-ran and thunderstorms caught us out and had to spend the night in a B&B). Back seat altimeter was in metres, with the sub-scale in Cm of Mercury. Lots of mental arithmetic going on when transiting the low level corridor past NW!
YR
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By: grayfly - 29th June 2005 at 15:35
Just idle curiosity, how many of you ( apart from students) still regularly use a 'whiz wheel' navigation slide rule computer, or have moved on to battery powered calculator types and above?