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Old 10th Oct 2013, 05:29
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No sweat, thanks for chiming in...

Continuing to "drift" off topic...

Lately I've been noticing how nice it is to have a real, physical directional gyro in plain view for somewhat-challenging-or-marginal VFR ops such as nighttime or whatever...

Sure, get your track established with the aid of the GPS or whatever, but once everthing is hunky-dory, set the DG to a good round number and just follow it for a while... beats looking at an electronic screen any day...

Especially at night, to save your night vision it's nice to dial down the red illumination lights to where you can just make out the marks on the DG and other steam-gauge instruments and not have some electronic screen glaring you in the face...

Steve

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