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Old 17th February 2011 | 07:29
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From: EuroGA.org
Can you not set the GPS to give magnetic heading, and fly in zero wind and use that to calibrate the compass?
Of course; and an IFR GPS gives you MH anyway. But you need zero wind.

My long post described a way of doing this when the wind is not zero.
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