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Float Flyr

Joined: 19 Jul 2006
Posts: 2704
Location: Campbellton, Newfoundland

Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 1:58 pm Post subject: was V-Speed question and placard question - now Compass Card

A lot of officials are picky about the compass correction card.  I suspect many compass swings are done with a bic pen.  We used to call them bic swings.  One of the sure ways to find a bic swing is when the correction for north is 000.  (When you do the correction for south you throw north out J)   I’m wondering if anyone here has actually included compass correction in their dead reckoning navigation.  As usual I tend to work backwards.  Flying VFR I set up my course then hold my heading on the compass instead of calculating a heading for a particular track.  

   

Noel  

       

From: owner-kitfox-list-server(at)matronics.com [mailto:owner-kitfox-list-server(at)matronics.com] On Behalf Of Weiss Richard

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My DAR was only concerned with 2 placards.  The first is the Passenger notification statement and the second was the compass correction card (not really a placard, but close enough for government work:-)    

             

Rick Weiss  

    

N39RW Series V Speedster, 912ULS  

    

SkyStar S/N 1  

    

Port Orange, FL  

  

  

   

  

   

  

   

  

       

On Mar 29, 2009, at 1:48 PM, teresa, paul morel wrote:  

  



 

         

Hi  

    

  Does anyone have a list of the V-Speeds for a 912 Kitfox Speedster?  

    

  Do I need to placard my panel with these speeds?  

    

  What other placards are required or "nice to have" on the panel?  

    

   

    

  I'm in the process of making my decals for the panel and don't want to find that I missed something after I clear coat.  

    

Thanks  

    

Paul  

  

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Tom Jones

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Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 3:49 pm Post subject: Re: was V-Speed question and placard question - now Compass

I do the same as you Noel.  The only time times I did the full heading plot was for my cross countries when I was a student and for my check ride he had me do one while we were in the air.

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Float Flyr

Joined: 19 Jul 2006
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Location: Campbellton, Newfoundland

Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 7:04 pm Post subject: was V-Speed question and placard question - now Compass Card

I was trying to get at two things...  First of all most compass swings are

not done anywhere near a compass rose.  They are expensive and time

consuming to do and even when done correctly parallax errors can throw

everything off.  There fore corrections are estimated by which way the wind

was blowing the day the correction card was filled out.



The second thing I was getting at is the magnetic compass is the last

instrument used in IFR and other than to hold a heading isn't used in VFR.

It may come in handy to designate grass runways.  I think most pilots would

be just as happy without it.  Perhaps out on the prairies it may get more

use but any where clear land marks can be seen it is just so much more to

carry aloft.



 



Noel



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Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 4:18 am Post subject: was V-Speed question and placard question - now Compass Card

Except on a full overcast night, no DG, or other means of determining

directions.  I've been in that situation more times than I like to remember

with only a magnetic compass to determine direction, and in mountainous

terrain at that.



John Hart



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dcsfoto

Joined: 24 Aug 2006
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Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 5:09 am Post subject: Re: was V-Speed question and placard question - now Compass

tell your DAR to check the FARs, a compass correction card is not required on your type of experimental aircraft.

David    Maint. and Manuf. DAR

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