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My pet peeve - Track/Heading/Bearing

3/28/2017 8:51 PM

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Re: My pet peeve - Track/Heading/Bearing Modified By on 3/28/2017 9:04:59 PM

I fly an airplane with a Garmin G300 which does show heading (compass), ground track (GPS), ground speed (GPS) , true airspeed (pitot and air temp/pressure), wind direction (calculated), and wind speed (calculated). All of these systems are tied together. IFly uses GPS only.

3/28/2017 9:17 PM

Walter

Joined: 7/8/2009

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Re: My pet peeve - Track/Heading/Bearing

The Ground Track that is being displayed comes straight from the GPS receiver. I've seen this issue before when the GPS is reporting incorrect information, or it's configured in a non-standard way (like it's providing Magnetic data instead of True).

Are you using an ADSB device or external GPS, or is this from the devices internal GPS?

Walter Boyd
President, Adventure Pilot

3/28/2017 10:32 PM

Warren Allred

Joined: 1/29/2016

Posts: 16

Re: My pet peeve - Track/Heading/Bearing

Walter wrote:

The Ground Track that is being displayed comes straight from the GPS receiver. I've seen this issue before when the GPS is reporting incorrect information, or it's configured in a non-standard way (like it's providing Magnetic data instead of True).

Are you using an ADSB device or external GPS, or is this from the devices internal GPS?

Internal GPS

3/29/2017 9:58 AM

Walter

Joined: 7/8/2009

Posts: 2778

Re: My pet peeve - Track/Heading/Bearing

You may want to consider installing a generic GPS untility, then if this happens again you can check the ground track from that app and see if it's also wrong. Would help diagnose this issue.

-Walter

Walter Boyd
President, Adventure Pilot

3/29/2017 10:43 AM

Warren Allred

Joined: 1/29/2016

Posts: 16

Re: My pet peeve - Track/Heading/Bearing

Walter wrote:

You may want to consider installing a generic GPS untility, then if this happens again you can check the ground track from that app and see if it's also wrong. Would help diagnose this issue.

-Walter

I bough at Dual XGPS150 yesterday and will use that for now on...

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