How DO PILOTS KNOW which HEADING to FLY??? Explained by CAPTAIN JOE

[@flywithcaptainjoe]

Answer to the first quiz question is 220 degrees! Typing error! My bad! You got it right 😉

[@dshack4689]

oh thank god for that, i was tearing my hair out having gotten 220 and wondering where i'd gone wrong. thanks for the update!

[@tilakmistry3438]

Can we still book an online zoom session with you? I wanted to book it for may, after my finals to know the next step towards being a pilot in India.

[@AnakinSkyobiliviator]

Oh whew! I thought I did something wrong, thanks Cap!

[@Gorkhepilot]

Finally relieved 😅

[@ervinm.5065]

Heck, I felt so dumb for a moment

[@WECB640]

Mag-nificent explanation! I have so much more respect for not only our pilots, but also our early sea captains. I think this is proof positive that we need more science instruction in our classrooms. Thank you Capt. Joe!

[@flywithcaptainjoe]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@orpattmaks490]

Mag-nificent ey? 😂😂

[@cessna880]

FINALLY, after 12min only, by watching Captain Joe' "FlightSchoolVideo", I finally understand a topic, which 12 hours of PPL-classroom failed to get transmitted to me. Big hands and thx for CPT Joe! 👏👏👏 🙌🙌🙌 📝✅ 🤩💡

[@dennisb6853]

I understood very little when I was in flight school but when I got flying I spent the few hours saying to myself now I understand. By the way I scored 98 on the test without understanding.

[@cessna880]

@@dennisb6853 😂👏👍 have you ever thaught to play lottery with your gifted intention of guessing? :)

[@flywithcaptainjoe]

Glad it was helpful! And really appreciate your comment!!!

[@cessna880]

@@flywithcaptainjoe if you like to have a flight or at least a visit inside a DC-3, you may like to come once to LSZG, where she is homebased. (sie fliegt öfters mal ihre Kreise :-) MFG Chris

[@mildlemon7866]

9:30 Strongly reminds me of my navigation lessons for my boating licence, with just one single difference: When navigating a boat or ship, you cannot go to a place with a vastly different magnetic variation within few hours!

[@BruceCarbonLakeriver]

well, there aren't that many boats coasting with up to 500kts ground speed xD

[@faskedfask8012]

Finally I can listen something about heading and navigation for my PPL(A) theoretical exam from you. Thank you :)

[@BhaveshDiwan]

Thanks a lot Joe for a long(er) video which actually teaches something worthy. Honestly, I prefer this anytime over the youtube shorts.

[@flywithcaptainjoe]

Thanks man! I won’t stop with the longer videos, Promise😉

[@selimeylul8292]

Very friendly both in person and on the screen. Thank you, Captain Joe, for consistently shining your enthusiasm for aviation by increasing accessibility into aviation topics.

[@sheldonbeckford9929]

I must tell you captain u are a great teacher in the aviation industry...and having you as a teacher you can never go wrong captain. I know there are many more like you out there and I honestly want to say thumbs up to all you pilots out there who is doin this fantastic job in the aviation industry. Respect to you all,and I hope one day I will be able to join all you guys because THE SKY IS THE LIMIT. Respect to you Joe

[@burakozer1778]

As a Cadet candidate, I feel like learning such things will be very helpful for my training! Thanks, Cpt. Joe 👍🏻

[@felixvialva652]

Thanks Captain

[@catdoctrigeek1464]

Perfect timing. Right where i'm at in my on-line ground school. It really helps to hear a slightly different wording of an important topic.

[@Johnnydoxx]

Very fine explanation and examples. Some anecdotal stuff: When I was an instructor for Mountain Search And Rescue, it was not uncommon for a student to get incorrect compass readings.. Often because of a metal pen, or SAR radio, near the compass on their neck lanyard, or sometimes because they rested the compass on a metal fence post for 'stability'! But in the field as a searcher, an odd situation occurred while searching in the lava fields in western New Mexico Those fields had magnetic anomalies that attracted the needle of the compass. We used the sun angle to keep a reference for our direction. As a rule, we penciled in the declination lines onto our field topo maps, to compare the magnetic readings to the true direction of the map. That way, laying the compass on the map, with its markings aligned with the penciled lines, told us the 'true' story! The declination there was 11 - 15 degrees east, depending on longitude and latitude.

[@nikitapodgorny6906]

Yeah boy, I had 2 weeks ago my navigation exam which I passed with 100%, and know I have a short video, which is nice to listen again and again for not forgeting about the navigation basics every time, thanks Joe 👍🏻

[@flywithcaptainjoe]

Well done! Happy to hear that!

[@klausbellroth5451]

This drove me nuts during my training. Remembering when to add/subtract variation, breaking down wind speeds into head or tailwinds vs crosswinds and worst of all, knowing when given wind directions are magnetic or true (if tower gives you a wind direction, it's magnetic, if you check the METAR/TAF they are true). Feels good to see this reviewed by Capt. Joe and not getting confused anymore. Thanks for the video 😀

[@crazy4gta1]

I remember this rule of thumb” if you hear it, it’s magnetic. If you read it, it’s true north”

[@Elanthiel]

Question about the results of the questions at 10:28 - I get 220 when working out the first question: True corse 219, with wind factored in 215, with magnetic variation 222, and with deviation 220. The answer should be 216 so what am I missing? Or is the answer incorrect?

[@rothaarig]

same sht

[@manvithkumarchalla3562]

Even me also

[@jedisith25]

even me too

[@chabadagyorgy8310]

I'm also getting 220 for multiple times, please help me if I'm missing something. Even watched the example twice but still...

[@kaibngwtz]

Me too. It’s like those damn EASA ATPL questions :D Jokes aside, great Video as always. Thanks for the great content

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

As a passenger (well, if I ever do it again), knowing that the big planes still have the old-fashioned compass + chart to fall back on, makes me happy!

[@Onzii06]

The timing of this vid is incredible....I have my Navigation exam tomorrow and wasnt confident with the headings and the conversions between them...and now i fully understand thanks to your easy and simple explanation....Thanks Captain!!

[@mafaruqui]

WoW, you took me back in 1995 when was a a student in flying club and I can still remember how my instructor used to stand and teach us all that, I can still hear his voice

[@justinwilliammee2150]

Wow, that was great. So articulate and the examples actually make sense. You can tell he puts himself in the shoes of a student and asks " if I were a student, would what I as the teacher just taught make any sense"? So many people are great at their profession, but just awful teachers or trainers. Thank you so much for your videos!!

[@primatefurtif6367]

What a timing, I’m starting my ppl without any knowledge and from all the topics, that one was the most difficult for me. Now I understand. THANKS A LOT. 👍

[@laderlappentv6402]

Just as my PPL(A) class was introduced to this topic. Thanks a lot, very well explained :)

[@flywithcaptainjoe]

Most welcome!

[@a-8007]

I saw many are saying similar. This was one of the subjects that tripped me up and you explained it well in 12 minutes 👍

[@MrT------5743]

Fun Fact The Earth's magnetic north pole, is a magnet's south pole. This is why the North compass needle is attracted to the Earth's magnetic north even though opposites attract.

[@maximilianpfeiffer4567]

It's 25 years ago but I still remember our physics teacher in 5th grade telling us exactly this. Funnily there was an error in our atlas where this was mixed up. :D

[@alexkazzeo6208]

Brings me back to old and fun days!

[@thomaspartin8968]

Captain Joe, I have to say, despite being an aviation geek my whole life, and having over 1000 hours in various pc simulators, I never knew this. I'm going to watch this several more times. Excellent explanation, sir. Thank you!!!

[@umarsebyala9920]

Clearly I haven't been clapping hard enough for the Captain on every safe flight! What you people do is nothing short of magnificent miracles every single time! Thank you for this insightful look at bearings in flight, Captain Joe! Mad respect from Uganda for you and your gravity defying colleagues all over the world!

[@rogerbrown5558]

Did this on my 'boat masters' course. Yep, same stuff applies. Nice little refresher.

[@brandonsg1367]

At 10:22 the first heading should be 220°. 219-4=215. 215+7=222. 222-2=220. The other 2 are correct but I don’t see how the first one could be 216°. Maybe I’m missing something?

[@ramoramo962]

Great explanation!! More flight-school related videos please!!!

[@flywithcaptainjoe]

You got it!

[@aninwokouchechukwu7656]

Wow wow wow like seriously ? Like I understood most of this stuff just a little which I don't but I will still rewatch it for full understanding. My Head of department in my university was teaching something very related to this few weeks ago and I was confused and was trying to understand it but this video made me remember about what he was teaching and i was matching both and I was just understanding what he was teaching. Much thanks to you captain joe you are more than just a pilot you are a inspiration to me and someone I look up to soo much to, thank you for this wonderful video and explanation, Thank you

[@christophesch4070]

With Concorde always in the picture. I have similar ideas from using a sail boat. Quite complex on the fly if you have to do it once in a while. Thanks for the video.

[@juanflyer8443]

Captain Joe, Thanks for your helpful insights. I just completed my Instrument Rating 3 days ago. Loved the basic clear explanations. Holds were a nightmare at first All done Now, Thank you. Cheers from Sunny Florida

[@brianloughlin6060]

Another great video. As an officer working I the shipping industry I enjoy seeing the things in aviation thay are similar to ships onboard every 4 hours we do a compass error check. The main factor that effects us is the steel used in the ship itself. This causes the compass to deviate slightly, but also depending on the area of the world the variation will differ slightly to abkut 3/4° E/W. Through taking a sight of a Celestial body and using calculations we can work out the error and which course to steer to get the true heading.

[@jorgevasco777]

Can't wait for the magnetic dip and turning errors related videos!

[@thomasgiovinozzo4059]

Loved this explanation, but every time an aero map showed up, my head started spinning! I’m sure with practice I could figure it out, but as a layman, it may as well be Esperanto. I read music and my friends who don’t tell me a similar story (i.e. it’s all gibberish dots and lines and Italian words!). Great video.

[@BryanDorr]

Excellent explanation, Captain Joe! A downside to the magnetic pole shift is the havoc it plays with runway numbering. I recall landing at Boeing Field where it was runways 13/31. Then recently I was at Boeing Field and saw the runways were renumbered 14/32.

[@sandeepKumar-jz7sc]

You are a excellent teacher sir.... All of your videos catch the students nerve ..... Very easy to understand with the way you explain.... It shows how well you understand the students in front of you and the possible complex error which a student can make. Lots of respect for your contribution to students ☺️🙏🙏

[@LeppAviation]

One of the best videos yet if I do say so myself 😉

[@DanSmithBK]

I am so grateful for my tablet and SkyDemon... I just touch two locations, and follow the magenta line! I remember doing it the old way, but I’m glad that’s becoming a thing of the past...

[@ShannonStrings200304]

You always inspire me, the more i watch you the more sure I am that I am gonna get my CPL. Thank you for sharing all the knowledge. Love learning from you. I really hope one day I get the opportunity to fly with you.(even if its a small Cessna/Dimond 😂)

[@SD45-ET44AC]

I won’t be piloting an aircraft in the foreseeable or unforeseeable remainder of my life but I liked this educational opportunity. Thanks! Great video!

[@WilliamHolden-t5g]

Had to watch part of video twice but finally got it. Thank you Captain Joe!!

[@filipesiegrist]

That was a great video for Flight Simulation. Thanks, captain.

[@user-oo8zt1sc1c]

Top quality material you are sharing dear Captain! Thx so much for your dedication.

[@TheNafanny1]

Having watched many of your videos and also Mentor Pilot ones, I just want to say what an amazing job pilots do. How you know and remember the 1000s of different settings, instruments, charts, maps, ATC, weather and hundreds of other things involved in safely operating a passenger aircraft I will never know!

[@susanmitrano1007]

Love your videos , I learn alot. Was surprised to see you use vero beach as example, I live in Vero. I really like your videos on holding procedures. I ran out of money for lessons so I watch videos and bought instrument procedures and instrument flying textbooks to learn as much as I can. Keep those videos coming , thanks.

[@srikrishnan1595]

Dear Joe, You are GEM of pilots .

[@shelleysflyingdreams]

Excellent video. Thanks Captain Joe.

[@catherinecollyns3021]

Thanks for info in regards how to work out headings

[@radamus210]

LOL! Man, it's been a while doing a flt plan but "West is Best" flipped a switch and BOOM! it all came back. I'm lucky though. Here in the midwest cornfields we live in a grid system, 1 mile squares chessboard. Waypoint verifications are a piece of cake. I'm also a fair weather, $100 burger kind of guy. This is the stuff you spend time grinding in the classroom and hitting the books and building a relationship with the Whizz wheel and charts with lots of interpolation.

[@johnopalko5223]

I learned to fly in Illinois. With near zero magnetic variation and all those section lines it was almost like cheating. It was quite an eye-opening experience when I moved to the Pacific Northwest. Here the variation is 15 degrees east and there's not a straight line to be found. Plus, mountains.

[@jpdutoit6277]

A fun mnemonic I was taught to remember the relationship between these headings was, "Can Dead Men Vote Twice?" in other words, Compass hdg, Deviation, Magnetic hdg, Variation, True hdg. Variation sits between Magnetic and True and Deviation sits between Compass and Magnetic.

[@daftDAFdriver]

That little bit of hair sticking out is putting me off my heading Hahaha 😅😅😅 great video thanks for the explanation

[@UraFlight]

Very very educational. Clear short explanation. Thank you so much Joe 😊

[@bastianhanschitz2839]

And for those confused about which way to add what: "Empty sea, add water" -> Map to Compass, add West

[@elcastorgrande]

Great explanation ! Welcome back.

[@sigwx1]

During my flight school we associated magnetic declination as "w" "wiskey(the drink of course), then put some more" that's why we add to the true heading.

[@Beardedexpat7614]

That’s made my understanding clear now Joe. Thanks for the explanation. 😊

[@NakiaEvans-n7z]

Even though it’s a year . Thank you captain Joe

[@danilocastro6611]

Just some mnemonics guys, so you cannot forget nevermore.

[@NavneetSingh-io4jh]

Best of the best explanation Sir thank you so much ♥️♥️

[@xTeamUNITx]

You really make me actually wanna get it right. Amazing teacher, Sir!

[@milk-it]

Perfekte Zusammenfassung wie immer! Danke Dir!

[@rikardlalic7275]

Top quality lessons

[@Hondalover3000]

Powerful geography lesson. Thanks Cpt. Joe!

[@SadBstard]

I think you should do the workings for all questions!!

[@2PistonRolling]

Thank you for sharing valuable knowledge explained in layman language. Made my day easy :)

[@Gorkhepilot]

Very informative video for me merci Cpt Joe

[@thegamingguy877]

Thanks for sharing ur knowledge with us joe 😊😊 Joe, could you please make a video about the trim of aircrafts?

[@yvaristil]

Really intrigued by your videos, keep it up Joe!

[@daverotors]

Awesome video! Unfortunately, I could never deal with the West Best, East Least mnemonic. What did work perfectly for me was this one: "From true to false, false sign(-), from false to true, true sign(+)". Meaning: From true to magnetic to compass heading, you subtract the variation or deviation value. From compass to magnetic to true heading, you add the deviation / variation value as you get closer to the true heading Got me through ATPL theory just fine :-)

[@PilotJoe2]

Amazing video! Loved the graphic aids!

[@dalgrim]

Shout out to Traverse City and the Green Bay Sectional you used at 3:27

[@Eyes_On_Sky]

Wow so easily explained

[@anonymous138]

Wieso kannst du das alles sooooooo gut erklären😍 Habe wirklich alles verstanden🙌🙌

[@tmting4942]

nice Vid.. airman, what about GRID HEADING, can you make an awesome work like this one about GRID NORTH with exemple.. let's say from Iqaluit (CYFB) to Resolute Bay (CYRB)

[@birds_eye_view]

Very good explanation and also not missing out on the banking error of the magnetic compass and so on. Looking forward to your next video 👍

[@gladyslopezmurillo6170]

Un excelente video Joe muy motivador

[@frank_av8tor]

Well explained! So glad my EHSI is Track Up so I don't need to worry about all this anymore. This did bring back many good memories of way back when. What's the difference between track vs heading? I'm sure Captain Joe will explain in a future video. Hint track is what really matters.

[@flyingcheff]

Well said, Joe!

[@moealib]

Cool stuff! And cool ad 😎

[@CountryAndClassics]

This was VERY good & well explained, BUT now to educate You! KILO is one word that means 1000. Your phonetic Alphabet "K" is pronounced KILO. Now, any word after KILO is added to KILO such as KILO-gram, KILO-pascal, KILO-watt KILO-metre, KILO-jewel. So WHY ARE AND HOW DOES THE "O" GET GET CHANGED TO AWE, AH? The first word DOES NOT CHANGE FOR KILOMETRE! Meter is distance.

[@daverotors]

Small correction (3:35) : The dashed lines on the VFR chart do not point to the magnetic north. They're isogonals, showing that the variation is the same along that line. You need to look for the label along that line that shows the actual variation. You can't measure the angle against those lines or you will lose orientation real quick!

[@max-mr5xf]

That’s quite close to how it’s taught for driving a boat. Makes sense, the problems to solve in that regard are the same. You just don’t usually need to be fast.

[@radamus210]

You make it sound so easy Captain, but now that it comes back to me, it wasn't that easy in instruction but I didn't have you as a teacher either. Density altitudes next?? 😁 that's a quickie easy one

[@clearthings9282]

New book👌👌👌👍👍👍👍👍

[@jonasfloriani]

On 09:34 the compass is set at 026!

[@PRCOM]

Great video cpt hope u and family are well.

[@ahmedmaalem8739]

Great lesson. Thanks Captain. Could you please explain us the external blinking lighting of the aircraft? Thx in advance.

[@ZK-APA]

He's already made a video on aircraft lights

[@NIAPRA]

Well done CJ I appreaciated 👍

[@rajahoomi]

Magnetic North Pole is actually South Pole of the earth's magnetic field! This sounds confusing but it is the earth's magnetic SOUTH that is located in northern Canada! That is why your compass magnet's NORTH side points to the true north pole. The north side of the magnet always attracts the south side of earth's magnetic field.

[@sritamshrabanrath5148]

I'm a non aviation guy but i love watching you videos and collect knowledge and information as much as possible. Keep the good work up. How the compass heading is coming 216 in quiz question 1 ? Can you please kindly explain.

[@Tara_Li]

Of course, even though you don't have to turn left or right when flying a great circle course long distance, your heading keeps changing.

[@johnopalko5223]

Unless they have a navigation system that can steer a great circle, most pilots and mariners just approximate the great circle with a series of rhumb lines.

[@Tara_Li]

@@johnopalko5223 Maybe Captain Joe can tell us about that process.

[@sameeralazawee7524]

Thank you

[@boogerwood]

Wonderful explanation. Although on your graphical depiction of magnetic north, shouldn’t it be in northern Canada? 3:19 edit: you show it correctly later. Should wait to comment 😊

[@rocketdyneF1]

I’m a mountaineer and I have to compensate for magnetic declination when I’m taking a bearing.

[@olmynuwen]

Excellent explanation thanks but there is another problem we did not talk about. Consider you want to fly direct from Iceland to Alaska. You must start heading north and switch mid flight to heading south. How would you figure that one out?

[@dennisb6853]

More flight related instructions pls

[@sheldonbeckford9929]

Hi captain Joe am not a pilot but it was one of my dream to become one,well I was wondering how did u get the 216⁰ for that quiz on 219⁰ true and wind corr.-4⁰ and magnetic variation 7⁰W and deviation 2⁰E. My answer was 220⁰ compass heading, this is Sheldon from Kingston Jamaica. I always subscribe to ur videos capt and I wud really like for u to post some more of those quiz with true course so I can continue to challenge my brain with these aviation. Thanks alot Joe

[@andrewsolomon5678]

That is a lot of math and information for pilots! Wow that’s complicated and complex and hard.

[@skatersurfersnowboarder3545]

Fascinating! With no flight knowledge i was able to figure out all 3 headings! Excellent instructions I do have 2 follow up questions. You stated in a small Cessna you would have to recalculate every 5 minutes? For what? What changes? Wind can significantly affect the heading, what would be the case for a breezy day with multiple wind gusts from different directions? To what degree are commercial flights using these? or is it all automated by computer? and finally landing is important obviously! wouldnt the direction of flight want to set us up to be in the path of the runway? or would that be only done and aimed for as we make the approach? Thanks so much for the informative videos!