E6B Flight Computer: Ground Speed and True Heading

In this tutorial, I will demonstrate how to calculate ground speed and true heading using the Jeppesen E6B mechanical flight computer. If you find any mistakes, please point them out. Feel free to leave questions, comments, and feedback below. Good luck on your journey to becoming a pilot!

Category:

Education

Tags:

• E6B
• Flight Computer
• Aviation
• Flight Training
• Airplanes
• Navigation
• VORs

[rodrop]

Great videos...short sweet and accurate

[FlightTutor]

@rodrop  Grazie!

[Biggles19601]

How can you calculate crosswind limits before take-off?

[FlightTutor]

@Biggles19601 That's a good idea, and something I can throw together pretty quickly. Look for it in the next day or two.

[josazo2005]

save my life man! excelent video, i got private pilot´s test in those days, you r a genius

[SanazAviator]

im taking navigation exam tomorrow it helped me thank you :) :X

[Biggles19601]

Thanks DJA984. I already knew that method. What I wanted to know was how you could do it on the Jeppsen wind side of the e6b computer. You can do it on the Pooleys version. The Jeppsen does most things very simply and I like using it.

[DJA984]

@Biggles19601

Use the 6 rules of thumb. Take the difference of your runway heading and wind direction first... So runway 18 = heading 180... Say the wind is blowing out of heading 210 at 10kts. 30 degree difference. Figure the crosswind component is 3/6ths of the total wind speed. So that's about 5kt xwind component. 10 degree difference = 1/6, 20 degree = 2/6, and so on. Assume Wind speed = Xwind component for any difference equal to or greater than 60 degrees.

[Biggles19601]

Thanks for the quick reply. I have loved your tutorials and bought the e6b on the strenth of them. My old flight compute,r you could work out crosswind and headwind components, which the e6b does not show, how to do. So I now wait for this tutorial, then I will be extremly happy.