Trying to remember the last time I looked at my compass and cannot remember ...
Phone, iPad, panel mount GPS, DG ... Never look at the compass, but I have one.
Jeff
Trying to remember the last time I looked at my compass and cannot remember ...
Phone, iPad, panel mount GPS, DG ... Never look at the compass, but I have one.
Jeff
I have a SIRS as well, and it has a wide range of adjustment, but lacking facilities to Degauss my airframe I never was able
to get it to where I was happy with the alignment. It is still in there, but it's good for rough cardinal headings only. Probably
on the order of +/- 20 degrees depending on heading. I use runway heading, or GPS track 99.999% of the time.
I think the SIRS is a very nice compass, more the point is that alignment in our airframe is a huge challenge. Probably if
mag heading is really important something remote mounted in the wing would be a much better solution.
I did try degaussing my airframe as much as possible with a big mag tape demagnetizer, but not sure that it really did
anything. I recall I spent a lot of time trying to get it adjusted, but in the end accepted what I worked out as "close enough"
I put mine in the MOST "voodoo infected" location, dead center in the middle of the glareshield, and this is probably why
I suffered so much. (Dave did you ever consider having an exorcism done on you plane? It just occurred to me that this
might have been a solution).
Jeff
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I put mine in the MOST "voodoo infected" location, dead center in the middle of the glareshield, and this is probably why
I suffered so much. (Dave did you ever consider having an exorcism done on you plane? It just occurred to me that this
might have been a solution).
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Jeff,
Originally, after chasing ghosts for so long trying to figure this out, I did consider exorcism as a possible solution! How'd you know that!
Dave S
Kitfox 7 Trigear (Flying since 2009)
912ULS Warp Drive
St Paul, MN
Paperweight or not, in Canada you must have a compass:
"a magnetic compass or a magnetic direction indicator that operates independently of the aircraft electrical generating system"
I always wondered if a battery backup G5 or something would satisfy but I have heard of no-one who has gotten away with it.
🇨🇦CANADA
Flying | SS7 | G3X | Edge 912
Wish I had read this before buying a new compass. I couldn't get the used one I bought from the salvage company to align. Bought a new falcon from Aircraft Spruce. No better. Mounted center above panel on glare shield. I have a Garmin Area 660 that has a several hours battery so if i were to loose electrical I'd still be okay for a while, long enough to get down safely. What a waist.
Fred
EAA, AOPA
KF5 (N49FK & N36KJ)
Phoenix, AZ