Vertical card compasses

.K. You got me. Some Pipers don't have a center windshield section
where the compass is mounted. The odd installations I remember were 2

I have mine mounted where the wiskey compass was mounted in the center of the
glareshield.
I have Cessna 172
Hank

Mike Spera writes:

O.K. You got me. Some Pipers don't have a center windshield section
where the compass is mounted.

I was half-expecting you to say to mount it up at the top of the
windshield. I suspect that it would be further away from distorting
fields there, but it would also be far away from the other instruments
(and my normal instrument scan area).

Anyone try something like that?

--kyler

Kyler Laird wrote:

Anyone try something like that?

IIRC, that was the standard mounting in a Cessna 150. Worked well, as far as
I was concerned.

George Patterson
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that
you look forward to the trip.

Mine (on a baby Beech) is mounted on the windshield. The only bug is
the wires that feed the internal light in the unit, but the added ease
of use is well worth it, in my opinion.

That being said, some of the mounts are actually for the glareshield,
and I know at least one that works fine. It has a thick pad between the
unit and the glareshield, I suppose it could be some kind of shielding.


Next, I have seen several installations, especially in Pipers, where
some idiot installed the thing buy bolting it onto the GLARESHIELD!


And a super-genius would mount it...uh...where exactly?