In rec.aviation.piloting Mxsmanic wrote:
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You need to know the heading to use to get somewhere. You use the
compass to actually go that direction.
You don't know what that heading is unless you already know where you are.
If you have a heading to get to where you want to go, the details of
your current position are irrelevant.
If the bathroom is down the hallway to the left, does it matter where
you are in getting to the bathroom?
You mean like fly a heading 230 degrees for 47 miles and there will be
a lake.
How do you know about the lake, with only a compass as your guide?
At the lake fly a heading of 273 degrees for 32 miles and
at that airport, fly a heading of 264 degrees for another 44 miles
and you will be at your destination?
How do you get this information from a compass?
Don't be an even bigger idiot than you already are.
Given the task is to get from point A to point B and you have a compass,
the only information you need is the heading from point A to point B.
No, the compass doesn't tell you what it it supposed to be, you need
something else to tell you that, whether it is another person, a
chart, or you just happen to know it.
So, you need a heading and a compass to follow that heading.
You obviously know nothing of real world navigation.
No, it's just that I know about covert channels.
Do you wrap your head with foil when you don't want to receive those
channels?
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Jim Pennino
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