User:Dixon.Dominic/sandbox

The article that I read was bout the war in Afghanistan

The article was very long and had some pretty outdated information, I did not finish the article just because of its length but reading over key points I noticed that it included many things that aren't important to the article.

The article was not biased at all from what I could tell which is surprising for such a political subject.

The article seemed to be really trying to be unbiased and because of this included many small details that were irrelevant, I think the article could be condensed more.

A more notable link used was to BBC and upon skimming the article they seemed to support each other and the information was used in the wiki article.

in the talk page they discuss typos and things that need updating but nothing major.

I don't really know how to check the other two questions from this slide

I will be doing the article "flight computer"  an article about the E6b Flight computer

the article is only a couple sentences long but just brushes over the names as well as a few of its uses.

It also includes a couple small facts but nothing big no real explanation of how it works.

I would like to add how you actually use this thing in the article and elaborate on a few things in there like how it tells you fuel burn and what the correction calculations on the back mean.

there isn't much in the article at all so it's hard to say too much about improvements that could be made

as far as sources I will probably mostly use the FAR/AIM which is pretty much the pilots bible and contains information on everything aviation, updated annually and considered to be correct 100% of the time by the FAA

I will also use information from the hillsboro aero academy website an accredited FAR part 141 flight school both of these sources give facts that cannot be contested by anyone.

Flight computer

(Electronic option is available and can be used on FAA exams but pilots are still expected to know how to use the analog version.)

One of the most useful parts of the E6B, is the technique of finding distance over time. Take the number 60 on the inner circle which usually has an arrow, and sometimes says rate on it. 60 is used in reference to the amount of minutes in an hour, by placing the 60 on the airspeed in knots, on the outer ring you can find how far you will travel in any given amount of minutes. Looking at the inner ring for minutes traveled and the distance traveled will be above It on the outer ring. This can also be done backwards to find the amount of time it will take to travel a given amount of nautical miles. On the main body of the flight computer you will find the wind component grid, which you will use to find how much crosswind you will actually have to correct for.

The crosswind component is the amount of crosswind in knots that is being applied to the airframe and can be less than the actual speed of the wind because of the angle. Below that you will find a grid called crosswind correction, this grid shows you the difference you need to correct for because of wind. On either side of the front you will have rulers, one for statue miles and one for nautical miles on your sectional map.

Another very useful part is the conversion scale on the front outer circle, which helps convert between Fahrenheit and Celsius. The back of the E6B is used to find ground speed and determine how much wind correction you need.

To find Ground Speed and True Heading:

Step One set wind direction under true index

Step Two mark wind velocity up from center point

Step Three set true course under true index

Step Four slide wind velocity mark to true airspeed

Step Five ground speed reads under center

Step Six wind correction angle reads between center line and wind velocity mark

You will always find these six steps on the top portion of the back of your E6B.