Timeline for In navigation, what's the difference between bearing, heading, direction, and course?
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| Sep 13, 2021 at 20:49 | comment | added | taserian | I meant that cars, boats and planes have impulse mechanisms (engines) that more often than not move you in the direction that their front is pointing. If you had a car that allowed both front wheels and rear wheels to be turned by the steering wheel, your car may be facing forwards, but your heading could be anything from forward-left to forward right (great for parallel parking). | |
| S Aug 14, 2021 at 8:26 | history | suggested | wjandrea | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Fix example: cardinal direction was wrong (cartesian plane has +,+ at top right, and if you're going north then turn right, you're going east). Use bold to make keywords stand out. Define nautical terms for anyone not in the know.
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| Aug 13, 2021 at 21:50 | comment | added | wjandrea | "assuming default movement by your vehicle's impulse mechanism is forward" -- Could you clarify? Is that referring to vehicles that go more vertically than horizontally, like diving bells? | |
| Aug 13, 2021 at 21:47 | comment | added | wjandrea | @Jim I noticed that the cardinal direction in the example was wrong, so I submitted an edit to fix it. Is that what you're talking about? | |
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| Aug 13, 2021 at 21:37 | comment | added | wjandrea | @Jim In what way? | |
| Jan 20, 2017 at 15:15 | history | edited | taserian | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Improved the wording, and provided a simple example.
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| Jan 12, 2016 at 1:43 | comment | added | Jim | This answer is just plain wrong. | |
| Jan 28, 2015 at 17:35 | comment | added | rbp | this was reposted in Aviation.SE and answered (correctly): aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/8000/… | |
| Aug 4, 2014 at 9:43 | comment | added | Jan Hudec | Heading is direction you are currently facing, which may not correspond the direction you are navigating in presence of currents (at sea) or wind (in the air). | |
| Jan 14, 2012 at 0:25 | comment | added | David Schwartz | There is almost always at least the Earth itself in the way. So even without obstacles, wind, and the like, heading and bearing differ on the shortest path, unless you're going directly up or tunneling through the Earth. | |
| Jan 13, 2012 at 22:26 | comment | added | Nathan | Thanks — the distinction between bearing, heading, and course makes sense to me, although your definition of heading does not agree with jwpat7's. When I clumsily wrote that I was "looking for two words to correctly assign to these physical components of a vehicle," what I meant was, single-word attributes to distinguish between the direction a vehicle was facing, and the actual direction the vehicle was moving in, voluntarily or not. I think "orientation" might work for the former, but I'm not sure which, if any, of the words I listed could really be applied to non-voluntary motion. | |
| Jan 13, 2012 at 21:43 | history | answered | taserian | CC BY-SA 3.0 |