Confusion about when it's my navigation, and when it's ATC

Newps wrote:



Mxsmanic wrote:

Newps writes:


The rudder changed the flight path from what it would have been.



The flight path is where you want the aircraft to go, not where it
would have gone.



Sorry, once again you are clueless. The flight path is the track over
the ground. Not the desired track, not the aircraft heading but the
actual track. That track can be controlled a number of ways.

That is correct. But, in most IFR operations desired track and actual
track must be virtually the same. If an engine is failed while actual
track is the same as desired track, and the proper application of rudder
(means no alieron cross-control input) results in continuing the actual
flight track to equal the desired flight track, then the flight path has
remained unchanged.