On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 15:58:11 -0500, "Stan Prevost"
wrote:

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.

But it's telling me to go away from the airport!

I know where the bloody airport is: it's beyond the south shore of
Great Bay. But the GPS is telling me to head north, toward town. In
that direction, 7B3 is 25,000 miles away!

Besides, I can't leave the continental U.S. with my recreational
certificate.

But that's only when I'm facing south. If I'm facing east, it's
telling me that south is east.

I realize that I could take the bearing off the GPS and use the
whiskey compass to navigate, but that seems a bit baroque.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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