A new free course, “How To Use Your E6B Flight Computer,” has been released by King Schools.
Noting that many student pilots struggle to comprehend a manually operated E6B, the course features Martha King explaining how to “master the infamous ‘Wiz Wheel,'” according to King School officials.
“When you are proficient with one, the manual E6B can be just as handy as an electronic flight computer when taking your private pilot written test, but it really shines when your practical test examiner ‘fails’ the batteries on your electronic flight computer, and then says: ‘Ok, what now?'” company officials said.
In the course, Martha covers a variety of topics, including how to calculate speed, distance, fuel consumption, flight times, and more on the calculation side of the computer and cross-country route planning on the wind side of the computer.
“These lessons had an interesting journey to become a free King Schools course,” said King Schools CEO and Co-Owner Barry Knuttila. “In 2021, we took E6B lessons from our Private Pilot Ground School and Test Prep Course and published them in a YouTube playlist. Since then, those videos have had more than 353,000 views and fantastic reviews. The popularity of the videos prompted us to expand the lessons to include cross-country planning and to create an easily accessed stand-alone free course that takes advantage of our iLearn LMS (Learning Management System) and also allows the use of our King Companion app to download and take the lessons even when off-line.”
You can enroll in the full course for free at KingSchools.com/E6B.
I can’t remember the last time I trued to use an E6B IN. The cockpit It’s primarily a pre flight tool. It’s also true that many of the in flight needs are handled by that fancy new glass cockpit stuff. (Old guy, n CFI flyin’n little stuff… now)
In a high density traffic area struggling with an E6B can be very distracting and dangerous if you are not at all proficient with it.
Boy-Howdy! You got that right!! Frustrating at first but once mastered, it’s pretty cool that old technology!