X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:13:13 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from pop-scotia.atl.sa.earthlink.net ([207.69.195.65] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.12) with ESMTP id 2378419 for lml@lancaironline.net; Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:24:59 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=207.69.195.65; envelope-from=pbricker@earthlink.net Received: from user-vcaug15.dsl.mindspring.com ([216.175.64.37] helo=paulrzm5oth3zt) by pop-scotia.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1IfRFH-0001gg-00 for lml@lancaironline.net; Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:24:23 -0400 From: "Paul Bricker" X-Original-To: "'Lancair Mailing List'" References: Subject: RE: [LML] Re: Backup DG equivalent X-Original-Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 19:24:17 -0700 X-Original-Message-ID: <00e501c80ae4$a9663c50$6601a8c0@paulrzm5oth3zt> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_00E6_01C80AA9.FD076450" X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 Thread-Index: AcgKGHiqW++M3PjRSnu9o92LsjClSwAy9iNA This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00E6_01C80AA9.FD076450 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dom, That's how I see it. I have a DigiFlight II VSGV. It has a magnetic calibration that you have to run in-flight. You head North, put it int eh cal mode, and watch the AP fly the plane fly circles. I think it must have an internal mag sensor. Paul Bricker N63PB _____ From: Lancair Mailing List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Dominic V Crain Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 7:02 PM To: lml@lancaironline.net Subject: [LML] Re: Backup DG equivalent Speaking of Tru Trak AP's, mine is the Digiflight 200. The Operating Handbook mentions only a magnetic back-up mode after the GOS reference is lost by way of a magnetic heading source contained within the programmer.. This must mean that there is an internal magnetic source to reference, such as a magnetometer. Is that the way other posters see it? Dom Crain VH-CZJ ------=_NextPart_000_00E6_01C80AA9.FD076450 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Dom,

 

That’s how I see it. I have a DigiFlight II VSGV. It has a magnetic calibration that you have to run in-flight. You head North, put it int eh cal mode, and watch the AP fly = the plane fly circles.  I think it must have an internal mag = sensor.

 

Paul = Bricker

N63PB

 

From: = Lancair Mailing List = [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Dominic V Crain
Sent: Monday, October 08, = 2007 7:02 PM
To: = lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: [LML] Re: Backup = DG equivalent

 

Speaking of Tru Trak AP’s, = mine is the Digiflight 200. The Operating Handbook mentions only a magnetic = back-up mode after the GOS reference is lost by way of a magnetic heading source contained within the programmer.. This must mean that there is an = internal magnetic source to reference, such as a = magnetometer.

Is that the way other posters see = it?

 

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Dom = Crain

 

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VH-CZJ

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