Thread: I give up, after many, many years!
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Old May 20th 08, 06:41 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.aviation.student
Bertie the Bunyip[_25_]
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Default I give up, after many, many years!
"Ken S. Tucker" wrote in news:093eece8-2816-
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On May 20, 12:33 am, John Godwin wrote:
"Ken S. Tucker" wrote in news:a15da157-a236-
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Well duh, it's a magnetic compass in a fluid.

While flying in IMC, I had a compass seal fail 10 miles from my
destination ... gawd, smelly compass fluid all over the cockpit.

When thought through, the Mag-Comp is quite the
precision instrument. That fluid needs be able to
not freeze down to what, maybe -40F. (Ron from
Alaska might know). It also sits in an Arizona sun
and can't expand to burst, though yours (John)
may have.
It also has a viscosity that keeps the thing from
gyrating all over the place, the one we used had
a slow lag while banking, so if you wanted to come
to 180 level the wings for 178 and the thing creeps
to 180.
Ken

Bwawhahwhahwhahwhahhwhahwhahwhahwhahwh!

Classic.


You sure your not Lou Costello?


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