Roger (K8RI) wrote:
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:48:35 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote:

Thomas Borchert writes:

Yes. So?
So the compass cannot always be trusted.

The *only* time a compass can almost be trusted is in straight, level,
and un-accelerated flight.

But the errors are predictable. I've seen a DG slowly wind down to
nothing and then completely fail, and I flew the plane just fine with
just the compass.