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Old 16th Jul 2017, 06:29
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RichardH
 
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Port & Starboard

There is no such thing as a stupid question Sonbre! Unless it's "what colour is the green navigation light"?

Anyway assuming you are using wind-down method (one reason it's used is it shows drift in the correct sense). Your heading will be at the top and your pencil dot will be usually be on the left or right hand side of the CRP5 centre line.

In your example heading of 060 is at the top and the pencil dot will be on the 5 degree right drift line. If it's on the right then this is starboard drift, if your pencil dot is on the left then this is port drift. Remember that wind ALWAYS blows from heading to track.

These phrases like several aviation ones date back to the days of sail, (like some of the dire questions) in the EASA exams they are more likely to use the phrases left or right drift.
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