BGS course end of Jan
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BGS course end of Jan
Anyone attending this course? I have been at module 1 since mid September, and might be booking this course, or maybe the one after. Can't wait to get ATPLs over and done with!
Psst, I hope they cover Gyroscopes in them 11 days!
Psst, I hope they cover Gyroscopes in them 11 days!
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Just hit gyroscopes...read it through first time and...it went over my head like a....dry air mass over a hill at 20kts 
I just moved onto Mass and Balance, which is nicely straight forward, and Met...interesting but difficult to remember. I'll leave gyroscopes to a REALLY good day, a day where I can actually take things in properly.
(hope that day comes before Jan20th!).
I just moved onto Mass and Balance, which is nicely straight forward, and Met...interesting but difficult to remember. I'll leave gyroscopes to a REALLY good day, a day where I can actually take things in properly.
(hope that day comes before Jan20th!).
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Don't worry too much OBK, you can rely on Baz at BGS to help out on the lovely topic of Gyros, particularly with his story of the two blokes, one who lives at the pole the other in the jungle at the equator.
Told as only Baz could tell it !
Told as only Baz could tell it !
Why do it if it's not fun?
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Yep, Baz'll help sort out gyros - there aren't many better than him.
But you'll still make life much easier on yourself if you can learn the principals, at least, before you go to Bristol. FFF's tip for the day: buy a globe for about £5 from WHSmith, and find an appropriate object to use as a "gyro" - a beer mat or something. Then, position the beer m.. sorry, gyro, over the globe. Turn the globe, and move the gyro with it, ensuring the gyro continues to point at the same place relative to the corner of the living room ceiling. Et voila - drift. You can do the same for wander - move the gyro around the globe without moving the globe, but keep the gyro pointing the same way. Really helped me understand it...
Good luck!
FFF
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But you'll still make life much easier on yourself if you can learn the principals, at least, before you go to Bristol. FFF's tip for the day: buy a globe for about £5 from WHSmith, and find an appropriate object to use as a "gyro" - a beer mat or something. Then, position the beer m.. sorry, gyro, over the globe. Turn the globe, and move the gyro with it, ensuring the gyro continues to point at the same place relative to the corner of the living room ceiling. Et voila - drift. You can do the same for wander - move the gyro around the globe without moving the globe, but keep the gyro pointing the same way. Really helped me understand it...
Good luck!
FFF
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Ooooh, every day at work I'm always grappling with a tricky gyroscopic related connundrum... err, Not.
I hated gyros during studies. Almost as much as Polar Sterographic charts - another thing I couldn't possibly manage without on a daily basis!
Nobody even dare mention Decca and 'lane slip' or I turn into a slavering loon with no more regard for human life than the Borg. I'd just like 5 minutes alone in a cell with the fiend that was in charge of ATPL exam content circa 1999...
WWW
I hated gyros during studies. Almost as much as Polar Sterographic charts - another thing I couldn't possibly manage without on a daily basis!
Nobody even dare mention Decca and 'lane slip' or I turn into a slavering loon with no more regard for human life than the Borg. I'd just like 5 minutes alone in a cell with the fiend that was in charge of ATPL exam content circa 1999...
WWW
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Of course, only a highly skilled, professional Navigator - particularly one trained by the RAF - can truly understand the workings of a gyro...unlike semi-skilled operatives - i.e. pilots, who struggle to spell gyrocsope.
The correct response to any flippancy a Navigator comes out with is to retort that he's been replaced by something costing £350 and powered by two AA batteries...
The correct response to any flippancy a Navigator comes out with is to retort that he's been replaced by something costing £350 and powered by two AA batteries...
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OBK, you think Gyro's are bad, wait until you come to Inertial Navigation! It's a nightmare. Anyone else feel the same?
I may well be on that end of Jan course myself. I take it there are still places left. Must ring the College!
Anyone know roughly how many are on these Brush-up Courses?
Matt
I may well be on that end of Jan course myself. I take it there are still places left. Must ring the College!
Anyone know roughly how many are on these Brush-up Courses?
Matt
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Wee Weasley,
Call yourself a Professional Pilot and you have no use for a Polar Stereographic..????
I`ve found a use for mine......folded it up and stuck it under the leg of my computer table it has stopped it rocking a treat!!
DWW
Call yourself a Professional Pilot and you have no use for a Polar Stereographic..????
I`ve found a use for mine......folded it up and stuck it under the leg of my computer table it has stopped it rocking a treat!!
DWW
