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Max Westheimer's Annual Aviation Festival is a blast for the entire family. This is a perfect opportunity to see the airport up close. You get to touch and feel the aircraft, see the airport from the tower view, and visit with people who are flying the aircraft every day. As always, there is a ...
Date & Time
10/02/2021 9:00am CDT
Address
1700 Lexington Avenue
Norman, OK 73071
United States
Norman, OK 73071
United States
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Try it You'll Like it - The SSSytem - a poor man's Air Navigation system:
Get your students involved in my very LOW TECH pilot navigation system. I call it the SIMPLE SIX ( 6 ) Minute NAV System a.k.a. The SSSYSTEM Six ( 6 ) minutes is ten percent of an hour therefore 10% ground speed ....is how much land will pass under your wing in 6 minutes. Example at 120 ground speed x 10% = 12 miles in 6 minutes or 2 miles every one minute... then ask the student to start judging distances on the ground ... to turn points, lakes, rivers, airports, towers... inflight visibility...using the clock and
the SSSystem which also applies to fuel flow, glide distances...
Note - I was amazed how fast and how good - accurate my student pilots were ...