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Subject:Re: The widdle plane gets confused
From:C J Campbell
Date:Mon Oct 07 06:24:38 2002
The "pseudo HSI" on a GPS shows your ground track, greatly simplifying many
tasks.

Why bother with heading when you can know your ground track directly?

"Scott Moore" wrote in message
news:3DA12B29.2EAD086E@inreach.com...
| Flying the Garmin 430 back tonight, I realized something. The little
| plane icon can be pretty wrong in a crosswind situation. With a good
| 5-10 degrees of crosswind course correction, the airplane icon reflects
| the ground track of the airplane, and can look quite wrong for the
| heading. Makes me wonder about all those "pseudo HSIs" out there.



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