Welcome into day seven of the 31 Day Safer Pilot Challenge.
In this video, we're going to learn
how to use a giant E6B.
MzeroA I know there are electronic E6Bs and apps and amazing pieces of technology
that help you out with all of these calculations
for flight planning, especially.
But, there's something cool about having that raw skillset to fall back on,
like a manual E6B.
You can bring one into your written test, your knowledge test.
And, there's a few approved electronic ones you can bring in with you as well,
but it's a great skill set to have to really fall back on
if things were to hit the fan.
I like learning the old school and then adding the technology to it.
So, let's dive into it with just quick, some foundational E6B knowledge.
Then, we'll dive into the questions.
First, perhaps, you remember that we have two sides to our E6B.
We have what's called the calculator side of our E6B that you're seeing right here.
Then, we have the wind side of our E6B.
Now, if you ever get lost, there's amazing instructions at the top.
You can't see them here,
but you can see it out there at the top of the E6B.
So, knowing this, let's dive into and let's go ahead
and let's look at some questions we can work through here together.
So, our first question says, how long will this flight take?
Our true airspeed, as you can see, is 90 knots.
Our wind is from 230 at 10.
If you look in the top left of your screen,
let's call that a true course, just for the sake of this argument,
I show a 178.
And then, I also show 96 nautical miles,
as we go down the coast of Florida from North to South.
So, for this, we're going to start on the wind side.
If you'd like to calculate that on your own,
you certainly can do it.
You can pause that video if you want to do this.
We have--
And, we're going to start on the wind side.
We have some instruction.
Mark wind direction under the true index.
Our true index is right here at the top of your screen.
It says to mark wind direction.
What was our wind direction again?
Let's look at it here together.
Our wind direction, there it is, our wind was 230 at 10.
So, back to the wind side,
I'm going to mark my wind direction under my true index.
So, I'm going to come all the way around.
Show of hands, who wants a giant E6B in their house?
I just think it's that
and a full-motion simulator seem important.
Alright, step one was to mark wind direction under the true index.
True index wind direction, 230.
Step two that's magically appearing on your screen right here
is to mark your wind velocity up from the center point.
I cheat a little bit on this.
And, let me show you how.
Mark wind direction up from our center point.
So, typically,
you take from the center point and you just count up.
And, you can see these lines.
That'd 2, 4, 6, 8, 10.
I start with the center point on 100 to make my life just very, very easy.
So, our wind was--
what again?
It was 230 at 10.
230 at 10.
So, I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to mark it up 10 knots.
I've got this here for you.
And, let's say the X, the center of this X is my 10.
So, I have done step two,
which is to mark my wind velocity up in knots, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10,
or again using the 100-line there.
It makes it very, very easy to count up.
Step 3 says to set my true course under the true index.
What was my true course again?
Let's look at it real quick here.
My true course, just for the sake of this argument
we're saying, was a 178.
So, step three is to set my true course under the true index of 178.
So, south is 180.
There we go, 178.
Step four is to slide the wind velocity mark
that I made to my true airspeed.
We said in our argument my true airspeed was 90 knots.
So, I'm going to slide my wind velocity mark
to my true airspeed of 90.
Now, this gets a little difficult here
because I don't know how well you can see but the giant E6B is taller than me.
So, we've got to use--
And, they engineered it very, very precisely.
We'll move this guy all the way on up to that 90 line almost there.
Don't worry.
Got everything under control.
You should see me use the giant E6B in 2-3-Mike-Zulu.
One more.
So, we just accomplished slide the wind velocity mark
to my true airspeed.
That's the slide function.
So, we've got that, wind velocity mark to my true airspeed line of 90 knots.
Now, it says my ground speed reads under center.
Under center what?
That's our step five.
Ground speed reads under center, under this center hole.
So, I can look here.
I've got 82, not quite 84.
I'm going to say we have a ground speed of 83.
A ground speed of 83.
So, now, knowing that I have a ground speed of 83,
I can answer the question.
Because let's look at the slide again.
What was the actual question here?
How long will this flight take?
Well, in order to figure that out,
I can't just throw in 90 knots.
I need to understand how the wind is affecting me there.
So, now that I know my ground speed,
I can come back over to the calculator side to finish this problem.
So, with a ground speed of 83--
And, could I see the distance again one more time?
The distance I'm traveling is 96 nautical miles.
So, again, the E6B makes it easy, I don't want to say to cheat,
but to know what you're doing
because of the instructions on the wind computer side.
We have instructions on the calculator side as well.
So, you can see here I can set miles per hour or knots
underneath our true index here as well that we have.
Here's our guy right here under the 60, this arrow.
So, set the miles per hour or knots under this arrow.
We said it was 83.
So, I'm taking this arrow.
81,
82,
83.
Again, just following the instructions.
Set the knots.
This is like a fraction.
Set the knots on this outer.
This is the A scale, the B scale, the C scale.
Set that on the A scale, arrows on the B scale.
Got it?
Then, on the A scale is your distance.
On the B scale is your time.
You're going to have one or the other.
I know my distance.
My distance was what again?
96.
96 is the distance.
So, I'm going to come over to 96, alright?
Now, this is where it gets tricky here.
90, alright, one, two, three, four, five, the big line here, six.
And, I'm going to read this straight on down.
And, I get my time in minutes.
I can also come down and see it in hours here.
But, I come out to 69, because here's 70,
69 minutes, you can see just shy of an hour 10 there as well.
83 knots is our ground speed.
And, that flight is going to take us 69 minutes.
Does that make sense to everybody?
Let's try another one here together.
This one, a little more involved.
We'll work through it together.
And then, I'll set you up on your own with a fun one
we're going to do for competition.
Let's look at this one here together.
This time, I need you to find time, speed, distance.
WCA is wind correction angle.
And, fuel burn.
So, looking at the left-hand side of our screen,
we are leaving Gainesville.
We're heading for a quick hop-down to Ocala.
I show a 182 heading, we'll call it our true course,
and 31 nautical miles.
True airspeed, TAS, 110 knots.
We're flying something a little bit faster, finally.
Wind, 330 at 14.
And, I'm burning 15 gallons per hour.
So, let's work through all of this again here together,
knowing what we know.
We need to--
First off, let's start back here
because speed is the big determining factor.
Let me take this off.
We'll reuse this guy here.
But, speed is going to be the big determining factor,
really, for everything.
Once we know how fast we're going,
we can then figure out time and work from there.
So, I'm going to go through this a little bit faster this time
because repetition is the mother of skill.
We continue to learn this way.
Mark wind direction under my true index.
My wind direction was 330.
Just checking it.
330.
Wind direction under true index.
Alright, true index, 330.
Mark wind velocity up from the center point.
I told you I like to put that 100 right there on the 100-line
right underneath the center like that.
And, my wind velocity was 14, 14 knots.
So, when I mark it under the 100, I can just go up here to 10 because 110,
and then 24 to get 14, the center of this X.
I just made it large for you all.
By the way, make sure you're using a magic mark or something
that erases easily when you're doing this.
You can maybe get away with a pencil.
Don't be like me back in the olden days where I used a Sharpie
and there were dots all over this thing.
My other E6B, not my giant E6B.
Alright, step three: set true course under the true index.
Can I see that true course one more time?
That true course was a 182.
Alright, so that's out to the south.
182 is my true course.
Come on, giant E6B, work your magic.
Alright, 180, 182.
Alright, 182.
Next, slide the wind velocity mark to the true airspeed.
My true airspeed is 110.
Alright.
So, I'm going to go this way.
It's much easier sliding down that way.
Wind velocity mark to my true airspeed of 110 knots.
Now, my ground speed, step five, reads under center.
My ground speed--
I show a ground speed--
I'm going to call it 122.
What'd you come up with?
I'm going to say I have a ground speed of 122.
Alright.
So, now,
I can figure everything else out on the other side.
So, write that down, 122.
If we could show the question one more time again here.
Find time.
We need to solve for that.
Speed, 122.
Distance, 31 miles, just peeking at my chart there.
So, we've solved some of this.
I need to go back.
I didn't solve for wind correction angle either.
That's nothing we need to solve for.
So, step six on the wind side
is my wind correction angle reads between the center line
and my wind velocity mark.
So, you can see this here.
How far off is it?
This just reads over 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, plus the 10, plus the 20 over here.
Can everybody follow me with that?
So, I show a wind correction angle of 2.
I'm going to round up and call it 4 degrees.
It's probably 3.7, if you have an electronic E6B.
But, I show a wind correction angle of 4 degrees.
Does everybody follow me with that?
And, it's to my right.
So, it's a positive number.
If it was to my left, it'd be a negative number.
So, it's plus 4 degrees, wind correction angle plus 4 degrees.
Back to our calculator side.
So, we've solved for that.
Let me see that question one more time.
I still have left time and fuel burn we need to solve.
So, now I know, let's figure out the time.
How do we just do that earlier?
Set my miles per hour or my knots, in this case, underneath my true index.
We said our ground speed is 122, but wait a second here.
Look at this with me here.
That's 10.
Well, this could be 1.
This could be 10.
This could be 100.
This could be 1,000.
122 is actually over here where our 12 is.
You got to think outside the box sometimes with the E6B.
So, 122 is actually--
that could be 120, 121, 122.
So, we've set our speed and knots, 122, underneath the true index.
Our distance is on the A scale.
Our time is on the inner scale here.
We are traveling, if my mind is right, 31 nautical miles.
Yep, 31 nautical miles.
So, we're going to come all the way down.
Look for that 31.
And, when we get into the threes in the bottom of the scale,
it gets a little tricky how it changes.
The distance is between 24 and 25.
And then, you get 30 and 35.
The distance really changes there.
So, you got to watch when we get to 31 here.
So, 31.
I'm showing about 15.
Anybody concur with that, 15 just shy?
Fifteen minutes is what that's going to take us.
It's actually 15 and a quarter, 15 and a half, somewhere around there.
We'll call it 15 minutes, we could even, if you want to be.
Time is a tricky one because time also eventually relates
to our fuel burn as well, which is where we're going.
So, it's always a little safe to round up.
If you're in between, call it 16 minutes, instead.
Technically, I'm going to say it's 15.25, if we're getting to the nitty-gritty of it.
But, when we're talking time, we're really talking fuel.
So, round up.
Speaking of fuel now, so your answer is 15 and a quarter.
So, I'm going to say 15.25.
Let's talk fuel burn now back here on the calculator side.
So, we also have our formulas here.
Set gallons per hour above
and the true index underneath are gallons per hour.
We said we are burning 15 gallons per hour.
So, I'm going to put my gallons per hour underneath my 15.
Now, I realize it's a little hard to read here.
On the outer scale, on the A scale, it's telling us total gallons,
and then time on your B.
And, essentially, also, your C scale.
Well, I'm trying to solve for this.
I'm trying to solve for the total gallons.
I don't know that, but what do I know?
I know my time.
We said it was what?
Fifteen and a quarter, alright?
So, coming all the way around down here to my 15.
And, you can 15 and a quarter, if you want.
And then, read down.
Wait a second.
How on earth am I going to burn 35, 36, 37, 38 gallons?
Why am I up here?
Well, that's not--
In this case, you have to think in the numbers that you're working with.
Of course, in 15 minutes, you're not going to run 35 gallons,
unless you're flying something really, really cool.
This is 3.5.
This is 3.6.
This would be 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 4 gallons, not 40 gallons.
So, really, we're going to end up burning 15.
We said it was a quarter.
So, I don't know, 3.7, 3.8 gallons, I would say, is a safe way to put it, 3.8.
If you ever get confused and go, "There's no way I'm burning 35 gallons,"
you're exactly right.
You're burning 3.5 gallons.
You have to look at the E6B and use the numbers
that you're actually working with that would make sense to you.
So, I realize this is a long video.
And, if you've made it this long in this video,
well, you're pretty dedicated.
So, you should be rewarded for such.
I didn't tell anybody.
I didn't want to say I was doing this at the beginning
because everybody just was scrubbed right to the end of this video.
If you watched all this video, though,
well, somebody out there is going to be rewarded for that.
In a second, I'm going to show you an E6B question.
The first correct answer in the YouTube comments--
So, wherever you're watching this, go find it in the YouTube comments.
The first correct answer to this one in the YouTube comments,
you're going to win something awesome.
And, the first correct answer in the Facebook comments.
So, if you go to YouTube and someone's already won,
head over to Facebook, at the MzeroA Facebook, real quick.
That's where this video is.
If you're watching this on MzeroA.com,
go find it on the MzeroA YouTube or find this video on the MzeroA Facebook
to get your answer in there.
Let me show you the question.
First correct one, I don't know what you're going to win yet.
The team doesn't even know I'm doing this just yet.
I should probably tell them so they know to ship it out.
But, anyways, let's go ahead and let's show that question.
I need you to find the following.
Find the time, speed, wind correction angle, and fuel burn.
And, here's what you have.
Your true airspeed is 80 knots.
Your true course is 270.
Your wind is from 110 at 19.
Distance you're traveling is 120 nautical miles.
You burn 15 gallons per hour.
First correct answer in the YouTube comments
and first correct answer in the Facebook comments.
I don't know what you're going to win yet, but you're going to win something good.
Thank you for making it to the end of this nearly 20-minute long E6B video,
as all E6B videos should be: long and exciting.
Hey, who's seven for seven, by the way?
You're doing absolutely awesome.
You made it through the first week of the 31 Day Safer Pilot Challenge.
You're 25% of the--
We could calculate that.
We could calculate how far
in the Safer Pilot Challenge you actually are.
Have a blessed, amazing, outstanding rest of your day.
I'll see you tomorrow.
Until then, remember,
that a good pilot is always learning.
Have a great day everybody. I'll see you tomorrow.
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