Additional wheel problems?

[Bluefish]

I've been trying to find some additional recreational dive planner wheel problems. I'm working on my DM exams, and I've been through the study guide that comes with the wheel, and all of the workbook questions, but I'd like to work through some more problems. Can't find anything with google or the scubaboard search. Any ideas?

 

[Diver0001]

I've been trying to find some additional recreational dive planner wheel problems. I'm working on my DM exams, and I've been through the study guide that comes with the wheel, and all of the workbook questions, but I'd like to work through some more problems. Can't find anything with google or the scubaboard search. Any ideas?

Two ideas:

First of all the Padi DM Knowledge workbook has a bunch of excercises for the wheel. Get the CD version. It's in invaluable study aid.

2nd, go back to your OW course and do all of the RDP problems on both tables and on the wheel and compare results. There are also some websites around with practice questoins for the RDP. You should be able to do them on the wheel and get the same results.

R..

 

[Michael Schlink]

Pull out a logbook and start running dives you have actually made, then throw in some variables. BUT if you know how to use the wheel why would you need to "practice"??

 

[Michael Schlink]

By the way if you don't know this already the wheel will give you different answers than the RDP table version AND from wheel to wheel. When I teach the wheel if the student's answer is "close" to the answer key I have the student run the dive profile for me (watching) several times they were doing it correctly, the wheel was "a little off" (this morning in fact)

 

[d33ps1x]

Bug your dive shop to also loan you the video that goes along with it. I just watched it today. Be warned that it is by far the absolute worst PADI video I have ever seen though. The jokes, plot and music remind me of another genre of film that starts with P.

Regardless it has some problems to work through and you suprisingly walk out at the end understanding the worst invention ever for scuba!

 

[Bluefish]

Thanks for the tips. I did notice that sometimes my wheel answers were one pressure group off from the "correct" answers.

 

[Michael Schlink]

By the way, If you haven't purchased a dive computer yet, let me make a suggestion. The multilevel dive planning aspect of the wheel works very well for getting more bottom time out of a typical dive. Of course the dive site has to have a multilevel profile such as a wreck or wall dive. You can purchase a nice wrist slate for $10-20. Before you jump in the water. Use your wheel to set up a two or three level plan and then write on your slate the times and depth changes. While your diving be sure to start your ascent to the next level "on time" I would start up 1 min. early.-Dive Safe-M-- P.S. Where in Illinios?

 

[Mako Mark]

I have to agree with you regarding the wheel video being reminicent of a cheap Porn movie. Every time I see it I expect them to rip off their clothes and start goin at it, but you have to remember this video was published before the invention of the compact disk and the internet, and Madonna was still "like a V*rgin".

Keep it in context.

What I have a hard time understanding is this:

the worst invention ever for scuba!

What are you talking about?? Most people (except for Divemaster Trainees) stopped being scared of the wheel in 1990.

 

[d33ps1x]

Thanks for the tips. I did notice that sometimes my wheel answers were one pressure group off from the "correct" answers.

Don't forget the yellow arrows have to pierce the line and white arrows just touch it.

 

[Diver0001]

Don't forget the yellow arrows have to pierce the line and white arrows just touch it.

The confusion stems from the definition of "pierce the line".

R..