I do not know if I am doing anything wrong or it is a bug, but I cannot be able to flight straight, following the green line.
Is anyone having or had the same problem?
Rgds, Marcelo
I can’t see an issue. Look at the wind speed and direction.
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The heading (the direction it’s pointed) is including a wind correction angle to maintain the correct course (the direct line you want to follow).
Regards
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@Yuudai5178 and @Habu2u2
It makes sense, once the wind is quite strong at this flight level.
Rgds
Marcelo
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The basics in play here are the fundamentals of all navigation.
you want to fly directly from A to B, if you maintain a HEADING towards B and there is a cross wind you will end up at point C, to achieve your aim of flying direct to point B you apply a correction to your heading to achieve a TRACK between A and B. In your example the Autopilot/Co pilot is doing this for you.
It is sad, that ASOBO/MS/Fs2020 do not provide any documentation or reading stuff to lern the basics of flying/Aviation.
You have to remember that it is not a game, it is a simulator (or it should be)
So to my mind, the Simulator should provide stuff (e.g. videos/pdf´s etc) to familiarize people with the basics of flying and how to deal with it.
I have a ATPL(A) and i´m a real world pilot… but i can understand that people do not have any fun with this sim because they simply don´t know what to do, or why something works like it works. I know from my training that theoretical stuff is tiring, but it is fundamental to understand aviation. And the more you understand, the more fun you will have to deal with it! 
@marcelocamera … i don´t want to criticize you in ANY way
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There is something called “internet” which can be used as documentation.
No need for Asobo to include pilot training material.
People who are too lazy to research by themself will most likely be too lazy to read through any given material.
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Haha I love these posts it shows who’s never played these sims before.
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Well, we all started out knowing nothing about this stuff and as my old instructor used to remind me, the only dumb question is the one you don’t ask.
The nice thing about the flightsim community has always been how helpful people are to each other, especially to those who are complete beginners … as shown by several answers above.
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I believe they don’t include it for several reasons.
A lot of folks, such as yourself, don’t need that reference material in the sim
It’s no different than purchasing a new Cessna and saying why aren’t my learn to fly manuals here.
You need to learn the theory of flight before you start.
As you know, that info is available freely in lots of places on line, so why add it here?
Another factor is, what do you include?
Basic flight theory? manuls for ATC? manuals for all the aircraft? airport diagrams? Stars? Sids? where does it end?
With all that comes cost.
Not only the cost to purchase and distribute that material, but there is also a cost to keep that material current. As regulations and knowledge changes, that material will have to be updated.
Then there are these forums. You can find out pretty near anything here.
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And think about the tree’s we’re saving by not having manual’s anymore. We used to get the fundamental things required to fly the sim back in the day, charts radio freq etc. It was enough to
navigate the old fashioned way. When games started selling on the internet though, devs/pubs pretty much quit printing manuals for anything.
I seem to remember on this website, there are some sort of manuals linked, but I have never looked at them so I dont know how detailed they are.
If you want to learn, I can highly suggest this Youtube channel
The fact you are still on the green line shows you are still following it. Shows the autopilot is quite clever, really.
Certainly not a bug, just the effect of the wind as described above.
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If you want to learn, I can highly suggest this Youtube channel
(P Gatcomb)
I second that. Educational and entertaining at the same time.
I watch everything he produces and love how he’s able to condense “Hello everybody” into a single syllable. 
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I’m glad I started flightsiming with fs2004. It was so great because it had the basic theory of flying and how to navigate etc. You could even do your virtual PPL. First you had to READ and then you had the flying lesson. The new sim is disappointing in this category. The tutorial flights are a joke. And why should it be expensive for Microsoft to implement proper documentation about flying when they already covered the basics in fs2004…
I have a picture…standby
Addendum:
This picture was taken on a real flight. Over WV northern panhandle.
Crabbing
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This is how planes fly… everything looks good.
WCA. Wind correction angle. You have a left tailing cross wind, so the HDG (aircraft heading) has to “point into the wind”. If HDG were equal to track, you would get blown off track to the left. Your track is only equal to your HDG if you would have 1. a direct head wind, 2. a direct tail wind, or 3. no wind at all. Which in the real world is very unlikely.
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This is correct,you can see these real life videos 13:40 and 4:45
You’re mean
(but I did giggle)
But, OP, you can’t know what you don’t know. I’m glad you came here to ask. Have you tried the training flights? Even though they are in the C152, there are some basic concepts about flying you will learn from them.
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