ASA Color E6B Flight Computer

A quality, color text, aluminum E6B flight computer. They work great, and there are no batteries to go bad!I recommend that every pilot and instructor carry one in their flight case.

Bien fabricado y buen material

I bought an ASA aluminum E6-B Flight Computer from an aeronautical book store in Burbank, CA for when I would have the time to actually take a flight school course; I figured having the device to learn and practice with, would give me a bit of a "head start" once I needed to plan flights for real.That was 20 years ago; it wasn't hard to master at all - the calculator side is just a circular slide rule, and I was familiar with slide rules from my high-school days in the early 1970's. Besides making quick work of Multiplication and Division, a slide rule is PERFECT for establishing RATIOS, and scaling them up or down to size or time - and the E6-B has the ratios for nearly any calculation a pilot needs to make already marked and highlighted for instant set-up. It even has a couple windows for adding a ratio-on-a-ratio, to see how temperature and air pressure and indicated altitude will affect the first calculation. Just line the marks for specific things on the outer scale with the specific quantities or times on the inner scale, and the entire range of values locked to that fixed ratio is instantly visible. ...All that being said - on the original version, it easy to lose those reference arrows (in black) on the scales (in black) on the brushed aluminum. The NEW model, with color, makes the specific ratio points stand out in sharp contrast, making it easier to find what you are looking for - a BIG improvement in visual clarity, helping to eliminate a possible source of Error. The colors also apply to the wind-and-heading correction side, as highlights to the E/W and L/R and major (5-degree) divisions on the wind chart. The disks on the calculator and wind course plotter slide easily, but with just enough resistance to stay where you set them. The new version feels just as durable in base material and markings as my 20-year-old model. While I had no complaints about the original, the color-enhanced version is a very useful improvement, and definitely worth the difference in cost between the two! This was shipped by USPS (mail), and after reading previous reviews, I was a bit worried that it might arrive bent or similarly damaged beyond use; but it arrived within 4 days, and despite not being packed with any sort of stiffener or additional protection beyond the Bubble-Pak mailer, it arrived straight and true and flat, without any bends, folds, distortions, or marring. I am very pleased with this product and the source.

Very nice good quality

Alles super