{"id":2224,"date":"2019-05-31T00:35:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T00:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haveblue.org\/?p=2224"},"modified":"2019-05-31T00:35:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T00:35:25","slug":"jeppesen-techstar-flight-computer-manual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haveblue.org\/?p=2224","title":{"rendered":"Jeppesen TechStar Flight Computer Manual"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t\n<p>Recently a friend gave me their duffel bag of old student pilot training materials (they kept their log book &#8211; hopefully they might pick up training again at some point!) and among the various old books, binders, and brick-a-brac was this gem:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"1024\" width=\"730\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/haveblue.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/techstar.jpg?resize=730%2C1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2227\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s an old handheld flight computer, and not the &#8216;whiz wheel&#8217; E6B circular slide rule we&#8217;re accustomed to, but an actual electronic flight calculator.  I had been pondering getting one for my knowledge test just because there&#8217;s a handful of cross-country planning questions that require you to work backwards on the E6B from the standard &#8220;set wind direction, mark wind speed, set course, etc.&#8221; process, and it&#8217;s pretty confusing.  Whereas with an electronic flight computer, you key in what you know and the magic silicon pixies do the rest for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a 26-year-old device, it still does handily, but it seems like nobody out on the webernets has a manual for it (searches turn up a load of spam links).  Fortunately, I found the manual tucked into a pocket, so I scanned it and am posting it here for others to hopefully find:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"http:\/\/haveblue.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/TechStar-Flight-Computer-Manual.pdf\">TechStar Flight Computer Manual<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/haveblue.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/TechStar-Flight-Computer-Manual.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"http:\/\/haveblue.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/TechStar-Quick-Orientation-Guide.pdf\">TechStar Quick Orientation Guide<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/haveblue.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/TechStar-Quick-Orientation-Guide.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently a friend gave me their duffel bag of old student pilot training materials (they kept their log book &#8211; hopefully they might pick up training again at some point!) and among the various old books, binders, and brick-a-brac was this gem: It&#8217;s an old handheld flight computer, and not the &#8216;whiz wheel&#8217; E6B circular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveblue.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveblue.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveblue.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveblue.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveblue.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haveblue.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveblue.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveblue.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveblue.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}