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serge2k on Feb 1, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to land an airplane if you are not a pilot

Compass lags, trying to keep a heading via the heading indicator is trickery than it sounds. Ground references are the way to go.

iliis on Feb 1, 2013 [–]

It can even do the opposite and precede your actual orientiation.

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