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The tools you're going to find in most co-pilots flights bags starting off is going to be a
lot of maps and charts. Air maps basically helping you find what they call more or less
the highways in the sky. You're going to have what they call approach plates. Basically
helps a pilot find his way in bad weather into an airport. Generally you're going to
have what's called an E6B or a lot of people call a *** wheel. It's a little instrument
that pilots use to find more or less time, fuel, distance based on their aircraft performance,
wind correction angles to help keep you on the same track. Another thing a co-pilot's
going to use, tools to help him with the flight is a lot of instrumentation inside the cockpit.
Along with technology GPS is the newest thing. The pilot's going to have a manual to help
him learn how to use the GPS and once he's there it's used for many different things.
Finding out how fast, far and how long it's going to take you to get to a destination.
Another thing you're going to find for most pilots they're going to have either a head
set for listening and communicating with air traffic control or towers. In the aircraft
you're going to find numerous types of radios. Another thing is what's called a transponder
inside the airplane. It's going to help the tower or air traffic control see where the
airplane is based on radar. The pilot's going to use many different tools inside the aircraft.
You have what's called an air speed indicator. There's an artificial horizon. There's what's
called an altimeter. Let's him know how high in the air he is. Or how low. You have what's
called a turn coordinator. It helps the pilot use, to keep the airplane coordinated and
comfortable in flight. There's a, what's called a vertical speed indicator which is going
to show the pilot how many feet per minute he's either climbing or descending.