Kenny Keller explains why he never bought an electronic E6B flight computer despite using one for his private pilot test. He sticks with a cardboard E6B and a WizWheel handheld instead, and notes that examiners vary on what devices they'll accept.
Too funny. It's day 233 and right now the time is 2:33 and I got to take off in about three minutes to get my daughter from school. Got to make this quick. And today's question, this is a simple question. It's about the E6B flight computer and I'll get to that in a minute. But first I want to show you. We're getting ready to post two more pictures for Kyle Parish who we had one picture up at the old at the old studio. He sent us another new one for both the CFI and CFI 2. So those are prepared. Heather, just put them together and they're going up on the wall over here. We've filled up the left side. Now we're filling up the right side and we got a bunch of cool advancements that we've been doing. Not going to show you yet, but we've been hard at work putting this new studio together. We got some more equipment coming. It's going to be freaking awesome as soon as we're done. So, members, keep sending your pictures for the Hogs Wall of Fame. Let us know what rating you completed. Give us a little background if you'd like. We'll get you up on the Hogs Wall of Fame. So the question is, and I have this up on the screen, older video of mine, a little younger, a little less gray hair, still got the crazy stuff up on top. And this is from one of our ground school members and he said next topic idea going for my ppl. And he said flight computer question mark. No, you can use a wiz wheel, but is it worth buying ASA or Sporty's handheld computer that you can use for the test? And there's somebody trying to bust through on my phone. I don't want to answer the phone right now in the middle of a video. That's why I don't answer the phone. And most time my phone is on airplane mode. No, you can use a wiz wheel, but is it worth buying an SAE sporty Sanko computer that you can use on the test? Have you heard it's great for the test? Speeds you up, but heard you rarely if ever use it after the test? Thanks. Here's my take on the flight computers. In the end, it's what your examiner is going to expect at the test. We have this one that we used for some past training. I have my original E6B looks just like that. But it's a small cardboard job that I bought back in the late 1990s and that's what I still have to this day, that I still use. And guess what? I do not own an electronic E6B computer. So a lot of people are gonna go, oh my God, you know, old school, grandpa, whatever. But you know what? I never spent the money on one of those fancy electronic ones. You're more than welcome to in this day and age. Examiners are now accepting a lot of electronic devices on checkrides. Some are still doing it old school, some are wanting it all electronic. So I can't answer that question. I keep saying I can't make a blanket statement. I can't. So use what you want. I prefer and I like the handheld wizwill. I've been using it so many years, it's just easier for me. I can imagine getting a new electronic job and I got to put batteries in it and charge the damn thing and plug stuff in. I have no need for it. I can just use my fancy old or non fancy cardboard $8 $E6B. So there's my take on the E6B. Sorry it's not great and exciting. Can't tell you what. E6B electronic computers are cool. Put them down below if you like. 20 years of flying, it's all I've ever used. I don't have one of the fancy electronic jobs so I gotta get going. Like I literally got to run out the door. So. Subscribe to the channel, click the bell. Be notified of our daily video. Day 233. We'll see you tomorrow in day 234. Helicopterground.com to check out our private commercial CFI instrument courses. See you tomorrow. Peace out.
