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If you tend to do stuff in the sim tending toward "as real as it gets", I found this great "real avaiation" program for the Palm that is just as useful for flight simmers that try to make things realistic as it is for real world pilots.

best,

..............john

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Description of the program for the Palm handheld:

CoPilot Version 4.6
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CoPilot is an application program for Palm OS Handhelds that performs flight planning calculations -- the calculations that you would usually perform with a ruler, protractor and an E6B calculator. CoPilot does time, distance, heading, fuel, and weight & balance calculations. It prepares flight plans (Canadian, American, and ICAO formats) with all the information required when calling the FSS. It also has utilities to aid in plotting routes on a map. CoPilot stores the data for past flights so that you can refer back to previous trips (or modify them for new trips).

CoPilot is distributed as freeware, with an option of a donation.

  Send e-mail to:

     (Mr) Laurie Davis

     ldavis@ieee.org

  If you would like to be notified regarding future releases of CoPilot,
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I've got a real E6-B Flight Computer

one that is a handheld computer/calculator? IE electronic?

my dad just gave me his old handheld (Manual) one the other night...:-)

Manual about as thick as my head, and tons of stuff to remember, but when i have some free time, I will play around with it ...:-)

Lol - if you want to fly; learn the whiz-wheel! Calculators/flight computers are great; but the Telex is sort of the backbone of aerial navigation - not knowing it is like an engineer not knowing how to use a slide-rule. It's still required for pilots in Canada; not sure about other countries.
Thing about the whiz-wheel is it's actually pretty easy to use (thick manual notwithstanding). Once you get the idea; you can whip through calculations quickly with a turn of the thumb; rather than punching buttons. Very intuitive. You can set up a flight plan a lot faster, easier and more accurately with an E6B than with an electronic FC; though that may be just me, I'm biased.