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The only time I've used a compass is flying needle/ball/compass on my instrument checkride

On Friday, July 3, 2015 at 9:55:09 AM UTC-7, Dan Marotta wrote:
I had a DG failure once while flying a T-33 over the Alaska Range
east of Mt. McKinley in the weather.* The weapons controllers
suggested I descend to clear weather and go home.* Ummm..* Let's
see...* Minimum safe altitude within 100 miles of home plate was
16,000' and the mountains where I was were 16,000' MSL.* So we
completed the intercept and I joined up on the F-4E and he led me
towards home until we got down to VMC.



Otherwise, I've never used a compass, either...




On 7/3/2015 10:23 AM, Jonathan St.
Cloud wrote:



Blocks compass? I do not think I have ever, other than training, used a compass, in powered aircraft or sailplanes. In sailplanes it is easy to look at the topographic features and see my rough heading, plus with GPS.... In powder aircraft the DG is the preferred instrument instead of compass. never had a complete power failure other than when I got the red light over temp warning due to my nicad on fire, was on the ground in seconds, thanks to muscle memory training.





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Dan Marotta