G-EMMA,
If you see where you are and where you should be and then position the aircraft where you should be there is absolutely no problem.....provided that you can come up with a reason for needing the correction and make an appropriate adjustment to heading so that the error should not happen again. There is also the time correction that may be involved.
I remember flying with a CPL candidate and it wne like this;
Where are we
We are here (points to correct place on map)
Where should we be
Over there (points out window to town 3nm 9 O'Clock)
OK.
Why are we here?
The heading is in error by 5 degrees.......I should have steered 335
What are you going to do?
Fly over to the town and when overhead fly a heading of 335.
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Far too many schools claim that is track crawling but it most certainly is not it is a valid method for regaining track and just as valid as double the error and standard closing angle and 1 in 60.
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It would be a very poor examiner who failed a PPL or even a CPL candidate for;
if I see I'm off track in flying to a feature that will put me back on my planned track
Especially if it is used to;
better than flying into something I had not planned for
Provided that having regained track they do not fly the same heading again and get into the same situation 5 minutes later.
Regards,
DFC