Hi Eddieheli – Great post and excellent thought process.
You succeeded in undermining my entire belief system on this subject and I have had to scurry back to the scared scriptures for reassurance. All I can add is that if you follow the ‘conventional’ rules as stated earlier by all those who favour Answer A, you will also answer correctly the only two question I can find in the JAA databank. Question 3080 and 3081 are similar but ask you to caculate the Compass Hdg, but the same rules apply and you need to accept the a minus deviation figure is West and should be added to the compass reading to give magnetic – 195 plus –2 equals 193.
Q3080 – Given True course 300, drift 8R, var 10W and Dev –4. Calc compass heading.
Ans – (a)306 (b)322 (c)278 (d)294
Q3081 – Given True Track 352, Var 11W, Drift 10R and Dev –5. Calc compass heading.
Ans – (a)358 (b)346 (c)025 (d)018
Note: - true course and true track are the terms used in the question.
What do you think the correct answers are or should I say, the answer that JAA give as being correct.
Could you do me a favour and promise not to turn attention on greater issues such as the existence or otherwise of God, the tooth fairy or santa. I really don’t think I could handle the truth.
Cheers.