Jay Honeck wrote:

Now DIRECTION from the airport is another thing entirely. Just looking
at your distance readout doesn't tell you your position relative to the
airport, and this is where a lot of guys screw up, IMHO.

Yep, and a lot of pilots round off the compass directions entirely too much.
They seem to know only the cardinal directions -- anything from 315 degrees to
45 degrees is "north", for example.

There's a controller who worked Norfolk approach a few years ago who's really
picky about that sort of thing. If you're in a position to listen to him, you
can hear him put on a sour tone when someone reports his position as north of
the airport and radar shows him to be NNE. Said pilot will be corrected. You can
also hear the note of astonishment when someone reports a position of SSE and
radar shows him to actually be there.

George Patterson
Why do men's hearts beat faster, knees get weak, throats become dry,
and they think irrationally when a woman wears leather clothing?
Because she smells like a new truck.