RunupLab

Free tool

E6B Flight Computer

The core E6B math that comes up in flight planning and on the checkride — pressure and density altitude, true airspeed, the wind triangle, and cloud base. Pick a calculation, type your numbers, read the answer. Every field is editable; the defaults show a vivid hot-and-high example.

The wind-triangle section draws the air vector, wind leg, and resulting ground track so you can see where the crab angle comes from — not just the heading and groundspeed numbers.

Pressure altitude4,820 ft
Density altitude7,777 ft
True airspeed124 kt

Pressure altitude = field elevation + (29.92 − altimeter) × 1,000. Density altitude adds ~120 ft per °C above the standard temperature; TAS scales CAS by the standard-atmosphere density ratio (CAS ≈ IAS with no POH calibration table). Defaults show a hot, high PA-28 / Cherokee example — edit any field for your own aircraft and conditions.

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One of a growing set of free pilot tools. For the concepts behind density altitude, the wind triangle, and cloud base, see the study guide and the sims.