A compass has a residual deviation of +1 degree. To fly a heading of 180 degrees the pilot must steer
- 181 degrees.
- 180 degrees.
- 179 degrees.
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GEO9816 asked · 4h ago
Hello , i am thinking that the correct answer in this question is 181 degrees .If the deviation is +1 dergee that means that if the compas heading to 181 degrees the arcraft goes heading 180 degrees ( 181 degrees - (+1) degree = 180 degrees). On the other hand if the pilot steer to 179 degree the compass will show 180 degree but the plane would travel too 179 degrees .
Is this right or am i wrong to somehtink?
thank you for your time , George
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Lisa_T
3h ago
Hey George, this one's tricky, you've got the correction running the wrong way round. It's 179, because a plus one deviation means the compass is reading one degree low, so when the aircraft is genuinely pointing at 180 the card in front of you shows 179, and that lower number is what you steer to. Same idea as a watch that runs a minute slow, if you need to be somewhere at 8 o'clock you set off when the watch says 7:59, you work to what the dial shows and not what you wish it showed. The memory line for it is deviation east, compass least, and a compass correction card would read for 180 steer 179, so that's how I'd read it.
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