I fully acknowledge that yet it’s not always that black and white. Like the response above, the most ‘maintain runway heading’ instructions I receive actually imply ‘fly straight ahead’. But again, I’m not dismissing what you say.
Question: how would you deal with ‘maintain runway heading’ when you depart in, say, a lefthand 38 knot crosswind. You will initially fly runway track until you pull heading. But by then your nose will be into the wind so you will actively have to turn 20-25 degrees to the right to end back on runway heading! Which is quite large a correction..
Last edited by PENKO; 6th April 2025 at 06:53.