"Up" is rarely "North"wards (such a trajectory most always throws one a curve)... I'm still waiting for the space station to pass by.I'll tell you what I sometimes find confusing...
In Great Britain, when we fly "up" Britain, from the bottom to the top, we travel Northwards on the Compass...
but, looking at my Atlas, when I fly "up" the coast of California from Los Angeles to Oregon, following the Pacific coast, my Compass reads W/NW, and magnetic N is off to my right!
...which just goes to show that "up" is not always Northwards!
You should try this in a CFS topview Chase viewpoint, whereas, the program tries referencing the direction of the aircraft with the top of the screen no matter which compass direction it's supposed to be facing; then, as you pan further away to get visual bearings, the entire scene flips to put "North" at the top of the screen. You're now viewing from so far into the atmosphere that that the only object of reference is the + marking where your acft is at; the next pan away reverts you to the blackness of space -- the world, and your acft, is gone.
8-)
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