I am mostly a wannabe. I quit flying short of a couple of hours and a checkride. Keep flyiong or stay married was the choice, for reasons I won't go into, but I chose the latter and haven't regretted a moment of it. I also blew an opportunity to fly helos when I was in the Army, but that is a tale of idiocy and woe.Thomas wrote:I see "naut" and "fuel". Do you by chance have a pilot's license?Dragonfighter wrote:Well, an early "family" Christmas Gift was a Wii U and I got Black Ops II with it.
On Christmas, I got a book called "Serenity: Book's story" which is a graphic, short story about the past of a character from "Firefly"...good reading. A 1920's pocket watch from my FIL. A Star Trek "Blue Shirt" beach towel and the wife got me Assassin's Creed III which takes place preceding and during the American Revolution. She also made me cry in that she found the watch I have been wanting for years:
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It came with a thick manual and a headache from trying all of the features.
I am an avid flight simmer and have enjoyed some pretty exotic "stick time" real world. I love military aviation (particularly Naval) and history in particular and used to fly for a VA called the Virtual United states Navy.
The bottom line is I still like to fly complex problems and fiddle around with my E-6B quite a bit. You can do certain calcs on the watch but you have to have REALLY good eyes or specs to see what you are doing. So far I've got knots to stats and fuel burn and fuel remaining, I did do a TAS vs IAS calculation with the manual but forgot how I did it.
Added in Edit: My daughter has picked up the gauntlet and is learning herself now.
