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Old 12th December 2003 | 05:55
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bookworm
 
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Why do you need (angular measurement of) tracks at all? In every situation I can think of, you want to fly to a point, not in a particular direction.

To fly on a straight line to that point, all you need is a datum against which you can turn left or right to hold or regain that line. It doesn't really matter which datum you use, so you might as well use the cheapest -- for many users that will be magnetic.
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