User blog comment:Maslab/Starship Navigation/@comment-173.93.238.217-20110519190701

Revising my Earlier post. The navigation of the ship works on the x-y axis based on compass degrees. The ship is the fixed point with 0 degrees being the front and intersecting points of the x-y axis as well as 180 degrees to the rear. The ship can only rotate on its axis a total of 360 degrees giving you a fixed point of navigation. Two examples, turning starboard (bearing three-two-zero mark eight), to port (bearing three five mark twenty). You would say bearing to let the navigator know you want to turn on the x axis 325 degrees then say mark to signify a 8 degree down pitch. So as I was thinking x+y+v=h (V= velocity, H=heading)