Page 2 on the PDA displays the bearing to the next turnpoint and the current course which is incorrectly labeled as heading, as seen in the attached screenshot, taken with a 50 kph north crosswind:
PDA page 2 course mislabeled as heading
PDA page 2 course mislabeled as heading
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Re: PDA page 2 course mislabeled as heading
Wow!
Well spotted !!! I had never noticed it.
Well spotted !!! I had never noticed it.
José Oliveira
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Hey you Chicks flying bricks....
Come Fly Gliders ! Be Outsiders!
Re: PDA page 2 course mislabeled as heading
The PDA shows you course as heading because of it simulates that the pda gets the heading/course from the GPS track so it only nows your track over ground and displays this.
This is common in some navigation software to lable this as "heading".
This is common in some navigation software to lable this as "heading".
