North-Up versus Direction-Up?

real pilots fly north up.
it's a left brain/right brain thing.
you are the variable, north is a constant, so why orientate to a
variable?
go on then - bring out your feminine side if you must, fly track or course
up.

;-] bill




At 14:18 17 December 2008, kirk.stant wrote:
Heading (Nose) up while flying - allows orientation with real world
(really important when winds are strong!). But this requires a good
Track display on the map; I have a nice track line on my mSeeYou map
that I can use to see how my wind corrected track compares with my
desired course line. I just adjust my heading to make sure my actual
track is taking me to the next turnpoint to avoid "homing". Also
matches the map on my SN10.

North up when creating a task - somewhat easier to see "big picture",
but not useful when actually flying, IMO (other than possibly when
thermalling - tried it but still prefer Heading up).

Kirk
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