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Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger
In real life aircraft, the Direction Indicator(gyrocompas) picks up errors due to gyroscopic progression. 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!
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Yep, I know that but I didn't expect it to be that far out
I can just about read the floating compass but I'm not sure it's readable for an accurate setting. Still we only need an indication most of the time.