Use of the Gyro P40 variants?

[Deltahawkoz]

Hi all, as I delve further into this great sim...just wondering about the utility of the Gyro compass in the p40 series...given that to my knowledge, these don't have a course setter?  Have watch a YT on using the gyro in the Brit a/c..setting up an interception against an enemy fighter..any pointers on how to use the Gyro compass in general with the P40s, navigation, interception, etc??

[BlitzPig_EL]

P40 is simple.

 

Point nose at enemy, pull trigger, rinse and repeat.

 

?

[danielprates]

3 hours ago, Deltahawkoz said:

Hi all, as I delve further into this great sim...just wondering about the utility of the Gyro compass in the p40 series...given that to my knowledge, these don't have a course setter?  Have watch a YT on using the gyro in the Brit a/c..setting up an interception against an enemy fighter..any pointers on how to use the Gyro compass in general with the P40s, navigation, interception, etc??

 

Unlike CloD, here we don't have interactive gyros. Only compasses, and iirc, in airplanes that had both instruments they will just be constantly synchronized. There are more expert people here to explain this, but as I understand it, gyros only make sense to help you deal with the effects of magnetic deviation, but as discussed before in this forum, there is no such thing in this game and all maps point to a coinciding  magnetic and geographic north. 

[=FSB=Man-Yac]

On 10/9/2020 at 11:58 PM, Deltahawkoz said:

Hi all, as I delve further into this great sim...just wondering about the utility of the Gyro compass in the p40 series...given that to my knowledge, these don't have a course setter?  Have watch a YT on using the gyro in the Brit a/c..setting up an interception against an enemy fighter..any pointers on how to use the Gyro compass in general with the P40s, navigation, interception, etc??

Gyros are used to overcome compass turning error and high latitude inaccuracy to my believe?

These are not modeled so I don't understand what you want to do with your gyro?

[LukeFF]

Declination, not deviation

[=FSB=Man-Yac]

21 hours ago, raaaid said:

yeah declination deviation is caused by the owns plane metal

 

21 hours ago, LukeFF said:

Declination, not deviation

real chads call it variation ?

[AndyJWest]

Sensible people live where it's close enough to zero not to matter. According to current data Heathrow has a declination of 0°E, whereas Farnborough, 20 miles southwest, has a declination of 0°W. Presumably there's an actual difference hidden in a rounding error or something. Makes flying around my home territory in MSFS a lot simpler, anyway. ?

 

 

[LukeFF]

On the subject of magnetic fields, the region around Kursk is known as the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly because of its huge deposits of iron ores. I can only imagine what sort of havoc that plays on navigation with a magnetic compass.