I think this is essentially a religious debate. For me, I am already
oriented
by my charts, flight planning, plates, airport diagrams, etc. all of which
are north up. So to do something different on a GPS map display is
confusing. Hunting down the little north barb on the track up screen just
doesn't do it.

I'll bet you don't turn your approach plates so they are track up! :-)

It has nothing to do with religion. It has to do with which display displays
more useful information. The "track up" display can be used like an HSI. The
"north" up cannot.

Keep the magenta line vertical (and start with the little airplane on the
line) and one is ON COURSE, "track up" only. This is a VERY EASY method of
staying on course.

Karl
ATP and "curator" N185KG

And yes, I have turned my approach plates track up. I suspect the Bonanza I
followed into Missoula should have done that as well. He turned the wrong
way on the arc. Had he been looking at his chart "track up" it wouldn't have
happened.

They found the airplane three years later. I had to hold for 30 minutes
after he disappeared. The NW airliner, holding above us simply went on to
Great Falls.