Originally Posted by
OpieTaylor
I could be for sure, just trying to give them the benefit of the doubt with reasonable confusion of 150, 015, and 105.
Another thought was someone took the HSI out of MAG leaving New York, and it never got put back. And the HSI decayed and they didn’t notice before takeoff roll it didn’t match runway heading.
Maybe they just pressed the heading button to sink the bug and took off.
It’s hard to slew the HSI 10 degrees nose up climbing or or while accelerating. Dropping the switch directly to mag could have swung it too much for them to maintain confidence.
If that’s the case, then it shows a serious lack of situational awareness, and it also seems to be a very non standard captain she’s flying with. Just my 2 cents, but that’s what I think may have been going on.