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My pet peeve - Track/Heading/Bearing

3/28/2017 8:27 PM

Warren Allred

Joined: 1/29/2016

Posts: 16

Re: My pet peeve - Track/Heading/Bearing

Jeff Clark wrote:
iFly has an additional instrument you don't have showing called XTE, or Cross-Track Error. If it was showing in your pic, it would be telling you to turn Right 8 degrees.

XTE It is in my pic look again. Yes all magnetic. Level flight. Steady state. Grond track 025 degrees.

3/28/2017 8:29 PM

Warren Allred

Joined: 1/29/2016

Posts: 16

Re: My pet peeve - Track/Heading/Bearing

XTE is in my pic and I use it.

All magnetic - Steady state - Actual round track was 025 for 30 minutes. Weird. Thanks for trying.

3/28/2017 8:32 PM

Joined: 1/1/0001

Posts: 0

Re: My pet peeve - Track/Heading/Bearing Modified By on 3/28/2017 8:36:33 PM

I promise, iFly gives you ground track. Again, how could it give you anything else? Think about it.

EDIT: If your GPS sees that you moved 10 feet north from point A to point B, it doesn't know what direction your airplane was pointed. It doesn't know if you flew forward, backward, or sideways. It does not have a magnetic compass and is not connected to any of your aircraft systems.

3/28/2017 8:36 PM

Warren Allred

Joined: 1/29/2016

Posts: 16

Re: My pet peeve - Track/Heading/Bearing

Tim Taylor wrote:
I promise, iFly gives you ground track. Again, how could it give you anything else? Think about it.

EDIT: If your GPS sees that you moved 10 feet north from point A to point B, it doesn't know what direction your airplane was pointed. It doesn't know if you flew forward, backward, or sideways.

Exactly - Inexpicable... Perhaps a buggy day but that's twice I've noticed it on 2 different flights.

3/28/2017 8:42 PM

Jeff Clark

Joined: 9/20/2012

Posts: 1254

Re: My pet peeve - Track/Heading/Bearing

Warren Allred wrote:
XTE It is in my pic look again. Yes all magnetic. Level flight. Steady state. Grond track 025 degrees.

My bad I didn't mean XTE, I meant "Turn" instrument. Also you're using your phone's internal GPS which, despite the shown signal strength which is usually an average over time, may have momentarily lost a few satellites.

Jeff Nokomis Clark, Mooney M20G, iFly app on ASUS ZenPad Z8s, ASUS ZenFone AR, ASUS Windows 10 tablet, Stratux ADS-B w AHRS

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