Measuring and testing – Navigation – Take-off and landing monitors
Patent
1975-10-16
1977-02-08
Woodiel, Donald O.
Measuring and testing
Navigation
Take-off and landing monitors
33356, G01C 2100
Patent
active
040066312
ABSTRACT:
This invention employs a magnetometer as a magnetic heading reference for a vehicle such as a small aircraft. The magnetometer is mounted on a directional dial in the aircraft in the vicinity of the pilot such that it is free to turn with the dial about the yaw axis of the aircraft. The invention includes a circuit for generating a signal proportional to the northerly turning error produced in the magnetometer due to the vertical component of the earth's magnetic field. This generated signal is then subtracted from the output of the magnetometer to compensate for the northerly turning error.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2463245 (1949-03-01), Chance
King William H.
Osborn Howard J.
The United States of America as represented by the Administrator
Woodiel Donald O.
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