On Jan 3, 5:06*am, Chris L wrote:
Is the electronic one better than the E6B manual flight computer. When
is one better than the other. I now have both. Do you have any
recommendations on using them.

Chris Lusardi

As a CFI my only concern is that if you buy an electronic E6B you need
to learn how to use it. Most of the time we toss it aside and grab the
paper one when students need to work on their in-flight computations
because they get lost in the electronic E6B.
So when we go on a cross country expect that I'm going to ask you to
divert and will ask you.
1) What heading will we fly
2) What time will we arrive (not how long will it take)
3) How many gallons of fuel will we burn going there.

You need to be able to answer these questions in a reasonable amount
of time. Too often I see students pull out some new E6B and get
totally lost in it. With the paper wheel we can figure it out very
quickly. I still carry my student paper E6B in my knee board and still
use it sometimes.

-Robert, CFII