Compass turns revisited

I think its easier just to do it on the dg (or even an obs if your dg
has failed and is covered up)-- as
Gardner said, count 10 seconds per "numbered" heading, even if it
means putting your finger physically on the
numbers as you count from your current heading to your desired
heading...

Yeah, that works great unless you have a barrel DG (or the DG is
covered) and an indicator without full view of the numbers. I've flown
IFR in such planes.

Michael

"Michael" wrote in message
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I think its easier just to do it on the dg (or even an obs if your dg
has failed and is covered up)-- as
Gardner said, count 10 seconds per "numbered" heading, even if it
means putting your finger physically on the
numbers as you count from your current heading to your desired
heading...

Yeah, that works great unless you have a barrel DG (or the DG is
covered) and an indicator without full view of the numbers. I've flown
IFR in such planes.

Michael


Have you ever flown a plane with OBS's that were designed where you couldn't see most of the numbers around the
perimeter of it? I haven't, but I have seen such on a MS Flight Sim panel for a C210 that I got... It drives
my crazy since it pretty much thwarts the "VOR as a Quadrature Instrument" approach, and other visualizations
that you can otherwise do on the OBS! I have not seen any on the market currently. I wonder during what
years--and by whom--were they manufactured?

Cheers,
John Clonts
Temple, Texas
N7NZ

John Clonts wrote:
Have you ever flown a plane with OBS's that were designed where you
couldn't see most of the numbers around the
perimeter of it?

Yes, that's one kind I referred to. In fact, I once had to train a
student whose airplane was so equipped. I believe his CDI's were
Garmin and some model of Narco, but I could be wrong.

There are also others (Terra, Bendix 2000) that are digital - you dial
in the radial on a display rather than have a mechanical ring.

Michael