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Old 20th May 2010 | 17:35
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India Four Two
 
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Andi,

I think you misread the question. StudentATP was asking what happens if you fly the initial track heading and don't change it.

Unless you are flying a track along the equator, you would eventually end up at the North or South Pole, if you had enough fuel. This is easy to see if you plot a rhumb line on a Mercator map of the world, where a rhumb line is of course a straight line. You will never get to your destination.
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