  There is observational evidence that the elongation of an Earth directed
coronal mass ejection (CME) may indicate the orientation of the underlying
erupting flux rope. In this study, we compare orientations of CMEs, MCs,
eruption arcades and coronal neutral line (CNL). We report on good correlations
between i) the directions of the axial field in EIT arcades and the elongations
of halo CMEs and ii) the tilt of the CNL and MC axis orientations. We found
that majority of the eruptions that had EIT arcades, CMEs and MCs similarly
oriented also had the CNL co-aligned with them. To the contrary, those events
that showed no agreement between orientations of the EIT arcades, CMEs and MCs,
had their MCs aligned with the coronal neutral line. We speculate that the axis
of the ejecta may be rotated in such a way that it is locally aligns itself
with the heliospheric current sheet.
