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Flight Rules and Regs

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cindy said:
The quote was from Gen George Patton, not Hitler.
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Editted to say: Yeah, D_mac, you need to seriously brush up on your history lol.
 
DMAC 5 Quote: Now, I want you to remember that no bastard won a war by dying for his country....he won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for HIS country!!".....??Adolf Hitler?? Unquote
 
You will use the whiz-wheel until you get your wings. In advanced helos there is a program that you can use for some of the low level visual navigation flights to compute the info, but as soon as you get into RI's, it is back to the wheel baby.

Learn it, live it, love it.

Seriously, if you get good with the thing it can be faster than a hand held computer and it also fits in your flight suit.
 
speaking of A-pool, what are most people doing while waiting to class up. Also, if you're doing virtually nothing, are you still getting paid??
 
Beating it like it owes you money.

Right now you're thinking, "what does he mean by that?"
 
Nope. I know EXACTLY what that means.

Corps...yes, you're still getting paid. Don't worry, you'll work it off later.
 
Is the whiz wheel that thing where you turn the little tables and you can get time, speed, and distance? We use those all the time on the bridge. Granted, I'll have to adjust my speeds just a tad, but if they're basically the same thing I got those down.
 
That is correct. Damn, that means that I really have to learn how to use the Whiz Wheel. I can't "cheat off my buddies" anymore. Thanks for the quote correction....forgot I had it up here.
 
The More You Know: The Whiz Wheel is actually a circular slide ruler. You can now brag that you know how to use a slide ruler. Not many people this day do ;)
 
Fly Navy...yep, that's the kind we used on a ship. What's the big deal with the whiz wheel? I use it all the time. Do a lot of people have problems with it? It sure beats the hell out of using a calculator...lot's quicker, especially for multiple equations.
 
don't worry about the whiz wheel.. you'll use it mostly in ground school... maybe once or twice during primary for in-flight calculations. i'm guessing it differs from one you would use on a ship because it calculates altitudes, groundspeed/true air speed, mach number etc. that you wouldn't need for a two dimensional environment.
 
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