wrote:
I have to agree. Perhaps it's just my ignorance, but when is the
direction that the nose is pointing useful information? My compass
works fine, and is a great source of amusement, but gives me little
useful information, other than helping guesstimate winds by comparing
it to my track.

I imagine that if you are trying to find landmarks in a strange country,
you'll need your heading. But it'll have to be a pretty fierce wind to
make your course and heading diverge enough to make it hard to substitute
the one for the other in that case.

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Michael Ash
Rogue Amoeba Software