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Did you know that you can use your wristwatch for a compass as long as you can find the sun? Align the sun half way between the hour hand and 12. 12 will be south, 6 will be north etc.
I long forgot about that.Did you know that you can use your wristwatch for a compass as long as you can find the sun? Align the sun half way between the hour hand and 12. 12 will be south, 6 will be north etc.
Sure, but you need an analog watch....Did you know that you can use your wristwatch for a compass as long as you can find the sun? Align the sun half way between the hour hand and 12. 12 will be south, 6 will be north etc.
My Apple watch has a compass!
if you ever have to go through a mountain range, with clouds at night with no GPS it is very nice to understand whatyour head in his.[/QUOTE
Seriously, Denny? :roll: Kamakaze is so old school....
MTV
My Apple watch has a compass!
Then I used an old 115v AC Weller soldier gun to degauss the tube. We'll see if the magnitism returns.
I wasn't able to get the tube down to 40, but degaussing it helped a lot.
I drank the kool aid. I bought a SIRS panel mount compass for the Wildcat. Junk. It went in the trash before it went in the plane. Don't believe everything you read!
I drank the kool aid. I bought a SIRS panel mount compass for the Wildcat. Junk. It went in the trash before it went in the plane. Don't believe everything you read!
That gives you a general direction. But if you take the compass out and carry it around you can pinpoint just where or what is magnetized. When I had the fuselage I am building outdoors I went around it with a compass, all seemed fine. When I held it inside the aft section of the fuselage it locked onto straight ahead. Interesting though when I held it near where it will mount it seemed fine. So I mounted it screwed to some wood near where it is to go. Picked up the tail and walked the plane around in circles, the compass was just fine. Unstrapped the wood and placed the compass back in the aft section and it faced forwards even when walking the fuse around. Be interesting to see what comes of this as I proceed.Wherever the compass points north (when it's not true north) in the plane wouldn't that be the magnetized spot? Like reading east all the time would mean the local hot spot is left of the compass.
Gary
My vertical card compass is very close to accurate. I use it as a cross-check from GPS track, and to get an idea of wind direction / speed. It's between tubes near the left-fwd spar fitting mounted with Adel clamps. Everywhere else from the front seat it was extremely (and exasperatingly) reliable. Because it ALWAYS pointed east.
Sorry Gary, I'm not familiar with the terminology??where is the magnetic node?
Sorry Gary, I'm not familiar with the terminology??