Originally Posted by
RexBanner
You maintain heading as instructed and report it as 345. When was the last time you heard any vectors from Air Traffic Control ending in anything other than a zero or five? ATC only work to the nearest five degrees (two degrees difference - which is the most it will ever be provided you've rounded the right way - isn't going to make any difference and in the unlikely event it does, ATC can give you a further heading change). I've had this discussion with controllers many a time.
Maybe that's how they do it some places but not here in America.
If ATC asks you to say heading, you are supposed to give the actual aircraft heading, not the nearest five degrees. If you are asked to say altitude you do round it to the nearest 100 feet if you are climbing or descending, however.
And, if you're given runway heading on runway 4, you maintain the actual mag heading of the runway centerline, e.g. 044, not 040.
Hope this helps.
