Metal and Glass Landing Calculator...

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...with a really cool knob!!!!

(okay since I way playing with images of DGs yesterday)

Use that cool knob to roll the runway heading to the top and voila!

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I am forever grateful that during one of my first lessons my CFI, a crusty old retired military type, caught me ogling a Sporty's catalog.

Said he, "There's not a damned thing in there that you need to be a good pilot."

Thank you Colonel Al !!!!

(yeah, I know, I'm a dick!) :goofy:
 

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eman1200 said:
with really bad timing too. that thread was like a month ago.
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well, two weeks actually and with posts less than a week ago...

...had to let the sting subside before injecting humor donchaknow! ;)
 
$1000 or so just to figure out which way to enter a pattern? Can I have your credit card number?

You can get a manual landing calculator here for $20.
 
this is what I use for my 'landing calculator':


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timwinters said:
...with a really cool knob!!!!

(okay since I way playing with images of DGs yesterday)

Use that cool knob to roll the runway heading to the top and voila!

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I am forever grateful that during one of my first lessons my CFI, a crusty old retired military type, caught me ogling a Sporty's catalog.

Said he, "There's not a damned thing in there that you need to be a good pilot."

Thank you Colonel Al !!!!

(yeah, I know, I'm a dick!) :goofy:
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In my plane using it like that would require:
1. reconfig of my auto pilot
2. eyes down and mor ethan 15 secs of back and forth with dg
3. can fail

or I can just pick my MLC up and spin it for 7 sec (I timed it) and get a confirmation of what I think and see and be done.

But hey keep kicking the horse it might not be dead yet.
 
I'm always game to try something new when flying, you never know when you'll find something handy.

The MLC has the E6-B front face, and has the LC on the back where the wind correction calculator would be on an E6-B (You, know, the part that nobody ever uses anyway.) So it's not like you end up with two E6-Bs.

So far, I've just used this as my LC:

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funny, but also very technical. here's how it works (I had to summarzie, as the Landing Calcualtor Operators Handbook is rather lengthy):
  • the 'landing calculator', we'll call them "eyeballs" for sake of this discussion, spots this long, rectangular thing with numbers on either end.
  • eyeballs then send this data to the central processing unit, which we'll call the "brain", if you will.
  • brain confirms that this long rectangular thingy is in fact a place highly conducive to landing an A-ro-plane. We'll call this thingy a "runway".
  • brain then sends a request to the Carpus and Phalanges, which we will call "the hands", to maneuver the A-ro-plane parallel to the "runway".
  • eyeballs confirm the work of "the hands" to ensure a parallelotomy has been performed, then sends confirmation back to the brain.
  • eyeballs then realize "hey, we're slightly past this thing called a runway, and we need to be ON said runway. maybe we should do something".
  • brain confirms that in fact, something should be done, and sends another request to "the hands" to make a slight 90 degree turn.
  • brain then realizes how cool this last 90 degree turn was, and requests that another 90 degree turn be made. "the hands" happily oblige (sp?).
  • eyeballs then confirm that this "runway" is straight ahead, and determines that a gentle descent will put this A-ro-plane much closer to it.
  • a short time later, a small squeak is heard by "the ears" (which in this case is slaved to both "the eyes" and "the brain").
  • both eyeballs and ears send confirmation to the brain that the A-ro-plane has, in fact, touched down gently onto the runway.
  • brain then sends final confirmation to eyeballs and hands that they are now approved to seek out a tasty adult carbonated beverage which we'll call "beer".
  • "beer" is discussed in another Operating Handbook entirely.
I hope this helps summarize the use of the most effective landing calculator in existence.
 
Amateurs.

This one works really nifty:

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See the two candles? Those represent the runway ends. You light them, and they act like little windsocks (it's really nifty, you should try it.)

The shells represent the other airplanes in the pattern. In this case it's a left hand pattern.

The chicken is a fail safe. If all goes wrong, the Gods, having been appropriately appeased, will allow you to continue on to a safe landing.

Please note that this method is scaleable. You can get by with a frog or a mouse if you're an ultralight. Turbine aircraft require goats.
 
Unfortunately too many pilots are flying around like this:

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timwinters said:
Said he, "There's not a damned thing in there that you need to be a good pilot."
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Unit74 said:
But a lot of stuff to make you a better pilot. :yes:
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I really don't believe that there is anything from Sporty's that would have helped me through my complete engine failure at 6,500' over Southern Mississippi with nothing but Southern Pines in all directions as far as the eye could see.

Being trained to fly by by Col. Al is what saved my ass that day, not some overpriced gadget from Sporty's.

:thumbsup:
 
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