[spjwebster]

I wonder how many niches still use slide rules today. I'm currently training for my private pilot license, and many of the calculations for flight planning are still done using what is essentially a circular slide rule [1]. Having grown up in an entirely digital era it took me a good long while to get used to it, but there's a level of elegance baked into this multi-purpose device that it's hard not to like it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_computer

[howard941]

You're allowed to use an electronic E6B for the written test but IRL I think one's better off with the analog computer because it's harder to make a mistake with it like punching in a wrong number, and also because there's no battery to die.