E6B Flight Planner
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The E6B Flight Planner is a utility that performs many common calculations essential for air navigation, such as great circle distances, fuel consumption, and heading corrections. Given wind velocity and heading, this utility will provide you with the proper heading. The beauty of using this E6B calculator is that it's always with you, and is easy to recalculate during preflight, or even during flight, since it's touch screen based.

Installation

1. Select Install Program from the splash screen that appears when you put the CD in your CD-ROM drive.

2. Install the TeleType GPS software to either your PDA or PC.

3. Check the box next to Install E6B Flight Planner.

4. Click Next.

5. Choose either Desktop/Laptop or PDA and select Install.

6. The software will then be installed to the PC or PDA.


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The powerful E6B Flight Planner performs many useful calculations. (PC)


Usage

The software allows you to choose the type of calculation from a drop-down menu at the top of the screen. The main part of the window will be updated to reflect the type of calculation including places to enter all of the appropriate data. There is also a Calculate button near the top of the window for when you are done entering the data into the program. To perform a calculation, follow the instructions below:

1. Select type of calculation from the drop-down list.

2. Enter relevant data.

3. Click Calculate to perform the calculation

4. The result will be displayed in the bottom portion of the window.