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On the last flight my INS showed a deviation of -112 °. This was a bug or something but the real bug: the compass showed north with this deviation so the compass is not the magnetic compass it has to be.

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How old is that mission? There was a bug with some headings or variations being stored as +-180 instead of 0-360 range. Missions made before that was fixed will still be wrong when flown with the latest version.

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How old is that mission? There was a bug with some headings or variations being stored as +-180 instead of 0-360 range. Missions made before that was fixed will still be wrong when flown with the latest version.

 

Ahh good to know.

But the compass has to show magnetic north under all circumstances. Regardless to the variation.

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The HSI isn't a magnetic compass. It's fed by INS. And you can choose to display Magnetic North (Cm) or True North (Cv).

 

So no, it doesn't always display magnetic north, it depends on the setting you choose and magnetic variation.

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The HSI isn't a magnetic compass. It's fed by INS. And you can choose to display Magnetic North (Cm) or True North (Cv).

 

So no, it doesn't always display magnetic north, it depends on the setting you choose and magnetic variation.

 

Noo :lol: I said the compass and not the HSI :D

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Stand by compass on right console ?

Probably the least of concerns right now :D

 

The magnetic compass of the Mirage on the right site. There is only one :smilewink:

And this one didn't point to magnetic north because on the map I flew almost south

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The magnetic compass of the Mirage on the right site. There is only one :smilewink:

And this one didn't point to magnetic north because on the map I flew almost south

 

Are you referring to the pull down compass that is over the INS panel?

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Are you referring to the pull down compass that is over the INS panel?

 

Yes this is the compass :lol:

Come on there is only one compass in the Mirage that can't be so hard :joystick:

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I guess the important thing is that moving forward with new missions made in the new version that the behavior is correct. There's no actual magnetic field in the simulation and all magnetic behavior has to be simulated as a deviation from true heaving instead of the reverse as in reality. As such it's expected that a bug affecting the translation between the two would be just as likely to propagate to a magnetic instrument as away from it.

 

I guess if an airplane module is able to get direct "local magnetic field" from the game engine then the most realistic and robust manner to program a simulation is to start from that input and derive the dependent data (true heading) in a manner similar to what the real airplane designers had to.

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