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Flightgear as Educational Tool

Postby RussL » Mon Jan 25, 2021 10:24 pm

Thanks to all for the responses to my previous post.
I'm working on a project to use Flightgear as an educational tool for math and science. I want to make the program fun while not learning bad habits.
The target age range is 10 - 18 years.
I wish to teach a mechanical computer than an electronic. I learned the CPU-26A/P many years ago to do vector math for electronics. But time change.
Does anyone have experience teaching the E6B or CR3 or similar to the age group?
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Re: Flightgear as Educational Tool

Postby Hooray » Mon Jan 25, 2021 10:32 pm

Speaking in general, adding a GUI dialog to display/animate an E6B would be fairly easy using the Canvas system and Nasal actually. All you'd need is a vector graphics file (SVG) and then load that inside a GUI dialog.
In turn, that could be added to the built-in tutorial system.

http://wiki.flightgear.org/Canvas_Snippets
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Re: Flightgear as Educational Tool

Postby Johan G » Tue Jan 26, 2021 4:26 pm

If you have an android phone there is a couple of good graphical E6B apps. The two I have tested myself are:


If you have a pad E6B Basic Flight Computer by MICRI Consult, might be of interest. I have not tested it myself, but it seem to be very educational with step by step guides.

Drawing the wind triangle on a gridded paper might be a good introduction to the vector calculations. Personally I have found a preference for the CR type calculators, due to only being made of rotating discs and being slightly more easy to use when one hand is busy with the controls, but I have unfortunately also found their wind side harder to learn as well as to remember.

I would guess that there are similar apps for iPhones as well.
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