Saturday, January 28, 2012

How to get a Course instead of Heading in Foreflight NavLog

If the system knows your TAS and altitude, it will work to grab the current winds-aloft and provide you wind-corrected headings for the desired course.

There are a few ways you can bypass the wind calcs and just get the courses:

- don't input TAS and/or altitude in the Maps search (I assume you are on an iPad)
- if it is still showing corrected headings, then:
  - make sure your "default/checked" aircraft in the More->Aircraft view doesn't have a default altitude
  - or input 75000 as part of your Maps search, as that altitude will be too high to do the calcs

Source:

-Jason Miller
Co-founder
ForeFlight LLC
Intelligent Apps for Pilots(tm)
www.foreflight.com

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