The bearing plate was rotated to match the compass heading of each leg, and the cursor was moved along the bar to draw a line on the bearing plate along that direction.
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CrowdOptic, an existing app for smartphones, applies algorithms and triangulation techniques to photo metadata including GPS position, compass heading, and a time stamp to arrive at a relative significance value for photo objects.
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However, in navigation, compass headings increase clockwise around the compass face, starting with 0?at the top of the compass ( the northerly direction ), with 90?to the right ( east ).
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Instead of a bewildering bank of dials that require constant scanning, critical flight information like airspeed and compass heading is transmitted electronically onto a computer screen in front of the pilot and co-pilot.
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The main entrance's pediment ( west entrance ) is of the most simple character; it consists of a compass heading with simple wood panels on the doors which may be of colonial manufacture.
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As any long-haul airline pilot knows, the shortest distance between two points on the Earth is not along a constant compass heading, but rather along what in spherical geometry is called a great circle.
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The diver unreels a section of distance line appropriate to the visibility and mark his start position by a peg, loose marker, compass heading, or a pre-laid marker line extending outwards from the datum position.
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The German crew had only just completed 100 hours of flight training, and had flown by compass heading, but proceeded on a reciprocal ( opposite ) course to that intended and thought they were over their own airfield.
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Its pitch was 16.2 degrees ( nose up ), with a roll angle of 5.3 degrees left . During its descent, the aircraft had turned more than 180 degrees to the right to a compass heading of 270 degrees.
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When it was first proposed in 1973 by then Massport chief Edward J . King, the 14 / 32 runway ( so called after its compass heading ) was billed as the only way for Logan to continue to grow.
