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Old 04-02-2011, 02:02 PM
Skoshi Tiger Skoshi Tiger is offline
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Originally Posted by klem View Post
That's what I pay the ground crew to do! Well, swing it and leave me do do the local adjustment. Not a whole 180'.

Yer just can't get the staff!

EDIT: Just one question. In FSX I can get a Tooltip magnetic reference heading off the standby/Whisky compass but the floating Spifire compass doesn't give me that and in any case its is too obscured to read. Where do I get a heading reference from in the cockpit so I can set the Gyro?
In real life aircraft, the Direction Indicator(gyrocompas) picks up errors due to gyroscopic precession. It needs to be corrected occasionally to be accurate. Don't know if the same errors occur in the sim. So even if your ground crew did set it, by the time you've finished your first cup of tea, it's probably out!

Cheers!

http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/o...g/compass3.htm

Last edited by Skoshi Tiger; 04-03-2011 at 06:47 AM. Reason: precession
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