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Re: Home made artificial horizon
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2011 Oct 05, 18:45 +0100
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2011 Oct 05, 18:45 +0100
Gary, you wrote: >And also those just learning CN work with the >concepts and the math but don't see any actual >results. So being able to take sights in the >backyard, even though the sight taking technique >is different, allows the new guy to say, "wow, this stuff really works!" > >As to the idea of buying a professional grade AH >for 595 Euros, for the 99.99% of us who will >only be using the AH as a learning tool or for >the occasional backyard fun session, it makes no >sense to spend that kind of money or to put off >making an inexpensive one that can serve these >purposes quite well. The 0.01% of us who might >actually use an AH for real navigation while >crossing the Sahara Desert (Geoffrey Kolbe, you >know who you are) then its price might be reasonable. Touch� Gary ;-) Geoffrey