@jeremy yes if you travelled at an initial heading of east, you'd eventually cross teh equator, that would effectively put you in the same path as an orbit with the inclination of your latitude

ok

boom

perfect

https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/images/z_changeover/20130125_vandenberg-launch-trajectories.png

try telling these guys

but that's if you're stuck to the surface

light rays are not stuck to the surface they come from the sun

No, you wouldn't cross the equator, not dead reckoning east.

@AstralSentient well wait lemme think

b/c i think you would

if you set your initial heading as east, and never adjusted it again, didn't look at a compass

your magnetic heading wouldnt' stay east

this is not cut and dry as some people thing

think

Dead reckoning would be directionally east, not based on compass.

at the start?

or throughout the journey

u are in new york u go east at the sunrise on the equinox

I'm talking throughout, staying on an east path, relative to your starting position

well you'd need a compass to do that

which i guess is dead reckoning still

Mark it on a map or globe

but imagine you start on a heading of 90 and never 'turn' left nor right

eventaully your magnetic heading will change

you wuoldn't follow a line of latitude in that case

yeah i know

u end up at the equator

@jeremy and past it

now ur gettin crazy

and south of it, then you'd return back to where you started

lol

would you cross the equator at an angle, or would you be parallle with it, in your opinion?

the equator is the only place u can start at and go east and never get off the equator line

imo

Dead reckoning, you would follow a line of latitude

at least ur saying if u started in new york and went east u would end up at the equator

East

thats ur opinion

sun rises at the equator for everyone on earth on the equinox if i travel east from new york in that direction i would end u p at the equator

tahts waht i think thats only my opinion