Originally Posted by
scifi
Hi Boss Eyed... No I think you have got it completely the wrong way round...
If you are going North downwind at GS = 199 kts a small control input could change your course by one degree... (your still effectively going North.)
But going into wind at Ground Speed =1 kt, the same control input could make your course change by 90 degrees (i.e. you fly west.)
In both cases your heading remains about the same, but the Course works out very differently.
For those not familiar with the Jargon, 'Course' is the track over the ground.
'Heading' is the way the front of the aircraft is pointing.
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If there was a way to do it I think the mods ought to link the thread at this point back to the beginning, so creating an endless loop of horsesh1t, that all posters are forever doomed to read without ever breaking out.
Groundhog Day and Sisyphus spring to mind.
So while I still can, I'm going to duck out for a second time.