Dan, it is telling you that the airport is to your south. It knows its
current position, and it knows where the airport is, and it indicates the
bearing to the airport. The needle will not move if you rotate the unit in
place, since a GPS receiver has no sensing of its orientation, only its
position. Go by the bearing it indicates, not whether the needle points to
actual north or south.

Stan


"Cub Driver" wrote in message
...

I am going quietly mad. I fired up my Garmin III Plus this afternoon
and plugged in the airport, and behold! The airport is to my south,
and the compass needle pointed north. Then I realized that if I turned
360 degrees, the display never changed: the needle always pointed to
the bottom of the compass rose, and north was always at the top.

Am I in simulator mode? What's going on here?

Thanks!

all the best -- Dan Ford
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