On 11/5/2012 3:36 PM, Tony wrote:
This was in the days when nearly every vario (except for the Ball

series) had a 1/2 liter flask. And when the really fancy final
glide

computers were plastic wheels instead of cardboard. And when real
men

navigated with paper maps! And....

no one had time to look outside while trying to figure out where they
were on the map and if they could make it?



It could be very time consuming figuring out where you were on the map,
then measure distances to your waypoint/airport, decide on a wind
component to use, twirl the "prayer wheel" to the right setting, and
finally discover your arrival altitude.

Shoot, just unfolding and folding the map and switching from one
sectional to the other was a big challenge! Electronic flight computers
eliminated almost all this distraction.

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Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to
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