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	* Fourthly, if you have the wind from the side, you will drift off from your track. To stay on track you will have to head into the wind. This results in that the ''(magnetic) heading'', or ''MH'', you will have to keep to get to the next checkpoint isn't the same as the direction from the last checkpoint to the next, the ''(magnetic) course'' or ''MC''. Also since the wind is pushing from the side it will change your GS, though not as much as a head or tail wind.		* Fourthly, if you have the wind from the side, you will drift off from your track. To stay on track you will have to head into the wind. This results in that the ''(magnetic) heading'', or ''MH'', you will have to keep to get to the next checkpoint isn't the same as the direction from the last checkpoint to the next, the ''(magnetic) course'' or ''MC''. Also since the wind is pushing from the side it will change your GS, though not as much as a head or tail wind.

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