a few newbie questions

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hello everybody
I have a few (well, actually thousands) questions
please give me a little brake since I'm very new to all this stuff
what is squawk and what do you do with it when given by ATC?
what's the difference between course and heading?
I know what happens when I fly on AP and change the heading but
nothing happens when I change the course

thanks
Mark

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Squawk is when atc request you to identify your aircraft to them. In FS9 you
simply acknolowledge their squawk request and the sim does everything for
you. If you want to do it manually, ATC will tell you as an example to
Squawk 2432. You then set this number up on your IFF transponder and contact
ATC to tell them you have done it and they should then confirm that they
have you on radar.

I might get slapped here, but my understanding is that course is the
direction of flight and heading is where the aircraft is actually pointed.
In zero wind conditions both will be the same, but if you have side winds
the two will be different. Others might be able to provide a better
definition to this.

I use the course 'bug' on the dials to remind me where the next turn is. I
also use it during the landing phase of the flight and tend to set it to the
direction of the runway I am landing on as it provides a nice visual cue as
to your orientation to the runway. Others might use this in a different
way....

Hope this helps
RobP

<159@aol.com> wrote in message
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> hello everybody
> I have a few (well, actually thousands) questions
> please give me a little brake since I'm very new to all this stuff
> what is squawk and what do you do with it when given by ATC?
> what's the difference between course and heading?
> I know what happens when I fly on AP and change the heading but
> nothing happens when I change the course
>
> thanks
> Mark

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159@aol.com wrote:
> hello everybody
> I have a few (well, actually thousands) questions
> please give me a little brake since I'm very new to all this stuff
> what is squawk and what do you do with it when given by ATC?
> what's the difference between course and heading?
> I know what happens when I fly on AP and change the heading but
> nothing happens when I change the course
>
> thanks
> Mark

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