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Message started by jarcelus on Apr 5th, 2008 at 2:05pm

Title: Re: Autopilot heading not correct
Post by olivier_moens on Aug 19th, 2009 at 12:04pm
Hello Evert

Actually, your plane is flying on  heading 300, (see the white arrow), and the nose of the plane is pointing to magnetic heading 300.
But you have a front left 21 knots wind, which is drifting your plane to the right, on a 303 track. Your HSI value is showing your current track  (see TRK indication on left of the box) and not your heading. A/P heading mode is keeping a magnetic heading, not a track, so you have to adjust your heading selection to take the wind into account ;).
This is perfectly normal. The track is the resulting vector of the heading combined with the drift.

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