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

youve seen it done on google earth and a made up earth and u think the made up earth one is real

@AstralSentient if you maintain a compass heading ya

@jeremy if you end up at the equator, and then kept going, you'd also go past it, and circle back to where you started

just like an orbit

idc where u end up after

Jeranism's google earth example doesn't go east, he curves it up northeast or southeast, lol

it's like that image i posted

i feel like once ur at the equator u would stay east on the equator

why

their is no real world experiment of this being done lol ?

You would, but also at any other latitude

if you crossed it at an angle you'd keep that angle

because if u are on the equator on the equinox at sunrise its a straight line to east