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I can. Always been able to.

[blackdog]

Middle of the night in a strange place I have always "felt" North, s e w , reliably.

As a pilot, once in air and enroute, never a clue without instruments. It most certainly is a terra firma sense for me.

[Openurmind]

Same here...

[John Milner]

Me too. Except two times. Both flying into a different city at night.

In Phoenix my sense of direction was off 90 degrees for the whole week. Even though I KNEW in my mind which way was north, I still couldn’t make my sense of direction correct.

The other time was Ft. Lauderdale. In that case I was 180 degrees off. And knew it. I kept having to tell myself,”Ok, I want to go towards the Ocean, so go the opposite way you think it is.” And that worked.

Maybe the fact I flew in messed me up. It was very disconcerting the whole time, both cities.

[RegulatorCountry]

Magnetic north is usually pretty easy for me, I seldom get disoriented in that regard, just “know” where it is without having to think about it. There are some places where I have problems with that, though. Minneapolis is one of them.