How do you use a nav flight computer for flying? What does it do exactly?

I understand that for navigational purposes, pilots have to use flight computers to calculate various things.





What is a flight computer capable of and is it easy to use?





Any help is much appreciated.





Many thanks.

How do you use a nav flight computer for flying? What does it do exactly?
Hey Ben, the reason for creating the flight computer was, because there are so many different units in use in aviation like feet, metres, US gallons, IMP gallons, litres, pounds, kilograms, statute miles, nautical miles.....oh you can just go on.





A flight computer basically makes it a lot easier to use all these units and solve the problem easier and quicker. For example in a specific mathematical problem, time can be measured in hours, distance in nautical miles and speed in knots. If you are looking to find the time taken to fly a certain distance at a certain speed, the time becomes a problem since there are 60 minutes in an hour, so you would have to convert your final answer. eg if it is 0.5, that would equal 30 minutes and not 50 since 0.5 is half of an hour=30miutes.





Oh man I know I know I am terrible at explaining. But basically it helps you mostly for pre-flight planning, in choosing speeds, altitude, drift correction angles and things like that. It makes flight planning a lot less time consuming, BUT only if you know how to use it!!! And yes once you learn it its easy.
Reply:The Manual E6B can give you a wind correct angle. convert miles into knots, C into F. time and distance answers.
Reply:Are you talking about an electronic E6B? If so, they're used to calculate any number of things. Fuel burns, weight and balance, cross country planning, etc. As far as ease of use, that all depends on the user. All of these calculators come with instructions, so they aren't that bad. I bought one from Sporty's and used it for all of my written tests as well as checking student's planning.
Reply:You will find your answer along with complete instructions on its use here:


http://www.gleim.com/aviation/computerin...