Originally Posted by
RexBanner
Precisely. ATC only work in five degree heading increments. A fact that is lost on many pilots who (for instance) report heading of 347 instead of common sense rounding to the nearest heading (345) which is all ATC are interested in anyway. Sorry to thread drift a little with one of my bugbears though.
That's a new one on me, not saying that you are wrong. What do you do if the controller says 'maintain present heading, say heading'? Stay at 347? Or turn to 345? Is this ICAO or FAA? Obviously a turn to anywhere close to a heading of 180 would have prevented a near CFIT in this case.
Originally Posted by
Uplinker
Was it a Korean 747-400 that crashed out of Stansted UK whose PFD1 malfunctioned and the F/O did not query or take control out of apparent cultural deference to the Captain but just watched as the Captain followed his failed PFD and banked into the ground?
Actually, the 1999 KE crash out of Stansted was a steam driven 747-200 freighter, not a -400:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean...go_Flight_8509