(45) Air Navigation with a Pocket Electronic Calculator

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SOME navigators may prefer other methods and other tools, but the Hewlett Packard HP-45 has some fascinating abilities. It might be called the poor man's INS computer, though it does not of course find position. Its only disadvantages are the need for a hood in sunlight and the need for concentration and freedom from distraction. It can be used on the knee for no table is required, and it replaces conversion tables and several other mathematical tables. To a large extent it can replace plotting charts, flight planning charts, Dalton computers, protractors and dividers.
It simplifies ground speed/distance/time and fuel calculations especially, with its ability simply to convert hours, minutes and seconds or degrees, minutes and seconds to and from decimals. It calculates in the decimal mode …
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