First of all, don’t feel bad. I’ve gone through a lot of trouble making the calculator easy to use, but there’s still a lot of functionality to understand.

Go through all of the tutorials. Go through them more than once if you have to. Read through this FAQ, the Glossary and the Blog. Every data field in the calculator has ToolTipA ToolTip is a small text box that appears when the mouse pointer is hovered over a screen object. The box disappears when the mouse pointer is moved away from the object or after a specified period of time, usually a few seconds. help – just hover your mouse over it for a couple of seconds. There is a lot of information available to help you out!

The best way to learn a tool like this might be to run through a known scenario. Enter the data for a model airplane that you already own. Play with the knobs and look at the different graphs. Pretty soon, it’ll all start making sense.