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Re: Interesting ebay find: Plath suncompass - ciraWWII
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2014 Sep 25, 11:11 -0700
From: Dan M <NoReply_DanM@fer3.com>
To: garylapook@pacbell.net
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2014 5:51 PM
Subject: [NavList] Re: Interesting ebay find: Plath suncompass - ciraWWII
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2014 Sep 25, 11:11 -0700
All flight navigation uses magnetic courses and headings (actually compass headings.) His heading display shows his magnetic heading, not true heading. So he is making the conversion from true to magnetic. Easy to make that conversion with the mnemonic TRUE-VIRGINS-MAKE-DULL-COMPANIONS.
Here is a link to another video of using the astrocompass on an airliner in
2001:
Here is a video of me using an astrocompass in flight:
Some other of my inflight celnav videos:
gl
From: Dan M <NoReply_DanM@fer3.com>
To: garylapook@pacbell.net
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2014 5:51 PM
Subject: [NavList] Re: Interesting ebay find: Plath suncompass - ciraWWII
