How does a GPS know your heading?
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You are right, exsp33, the principles have not changed. We just have better tools today.
The thing I regularly find amusing is how many people really do think that the plane flies differently according to the wind direction
The thing I regularly find amusing is how many people really do think that the plane flies differently according to the wind direction
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From: The Smaller Antipode
The thing I regularly find amusing is how many people really do think that the plane flies differently according to the wind direction
Aplogies if you've read this from me elsewhere - I'll cut the preamble - my co-pilot fumbled the ( new to him ) INS leaving Singapore for Australia, and insisted that I flew a heading of 310 (M) That's what's wrong. Too much reliance on new tools without understanding the old, basic principles first.
But then Grandads are always like that - and I need a passing 5 yr. old to show me how to answer a 'text' message on the magic 'phone !
Cheers, I think we're on the same page !
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my co-pilot fumbled the ( new to him ) INS leaving Singapore for Australia, and insisted that I flew a heading of 310 (M) That's what's wrong. Too much reliance on new tools without understanding the old, basic principles first.
I don't think this is related to navigation, as such. But it's easily done - I could not have told you where many of the various European countries were relative to each other, until I started flying there.
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From: The Smaller Antipode
Without looking on a map, I reckon he got the reciprocal
Possibly, tho' don't think so, but too long ago now !
Singaporeans of Chinese ethnicity are VERY bright, I don't think he would have any doubt as to which way Australia lay, still, I agree, one can get disorientated trying to do a maths exam in a rattling steel cabinet, which is why one of my early instructors suggested mentally sitting on the tail and steering the model of the aeroplane across the chart.
Not a problem now, I only fly IFR - I Follow Roads.
