TI-30 ...har... It was my junior year before the MELCOR scientific calculators hit the market (these were sub-$100 because they didn't do the arccos 0 right). My senior year, my parents gifted me a TI SR-52 programmable calculator.
Historical nav devices
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Ted
The pilot formerly known as Twin Engine Ted
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You kid, but when I started flying across the ocean, we used a navigator and one of these.
To be fair, we also had a crappy Carousel IV INS and a DNS (Doppler Navigation System) but they were pretty much worthless over the ocean.
Just curious - what aircraft and what year?
Sluggo63
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KC-135's in the early 1990s.
silver-eagle
En-Route
I have a fancy sliderule my brother gave me when I starter high school.. I ever got past the simple stuff. I do use the magic Wizz wheel a few times a year, having to look up the how to every damned time.
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And I was going to guess 707 'cause I remember seeing something similar in them. Dad worked for TWA.
patrick wentworth
Pre-takeoff checklist
We carried 2 on the B52 and preflighted both of them before every flight.
Our old Zenith tube TV had to warm up before the picture came up. Now my Verizon box has to boot - takes a bit longer. The old Zenith changed channels faster, as well. Just not very many of them to change to. . .
We're still in early days, integrating software into our hardware, and getting it seamless. Or even efficient. Crappy interfaces (G1000, any smart phone), and real buggy software driving the boxes. I tend to think of most modern digital controls as "best guesses" about usage, mostly absent machine learning, and when it is present, it's narrowly focused and inflexible.
If you're operating within the "expected" parameters, the junk will usually serve; step beyond those bounds, and not so good. . .
Remember when the AC or heat in most cars could be turned on, independent of the fan? "Dumb" systems, but you had that option, if doing something unusual, maintenance wise. My Mazda automatically switches to intake cabin air from outside, if I select defrost, 'cause Mazda determined it works better that way. Except when following a trash truck spewing exhaust fumes. No option, no override.
We're still in early days, integrating software into our hardware, and getting it seamless. Or even efficient. Crappy interfaces (G1000, any smart phone), and real buggy software driving the boxes. I tend to think of most modern digital controls as "best guesses" about usage, mostly absent machine learning, and when it is present, it's narrowly focused and inflexible.
If you're operating within the "expected" parameters, the junk will usually serve; step beyond those bounds, and not so good. . .
Remember when the AC or heat in most cars could be turned on, independent of the fan? "Dumb" systems, but you had that option, if doing something unusual, maintenance wise. My Mazda automatically switches to intake cabin air from outside, if I select defrost, 'cause Mazda determined it works better that way. Except when following a trash truck spewing exhaust fumes. No option, no override.
BillTIZ
Final Approach
I was just looking for pictures of that. I used it in the B-52G.You kid, but when I started flying across the ocean, we used a navigator and one of these.
To be fair, we also had a crappy Carousel IV INS and a DNS (Doppler Navigation System) but they were pretty much worthless over the ocean.
Now to dig out the Almanac, and H.O. 249, E-6B, plotter and speed dividers.