Little bit of trivia - all aircraft have one of those compasses as standard equipment just in case all of the electronics fail. You might have other major problems in that case - but at least you'll know which direction you are heading on the way to the ground.Just added a compass to the cubby hole.. now I will never get lost.
Who needs a compass to find “down”?
Let's hope the aircraft manufacturer didn't buy one of these $3 jewels... This compass has no clue where it is pointed. I can drive 30 minutes all over town and it will swear I am pointed due East. Then it will spin to a new direction,, normally wrong again and then suddenly track the right direction. True to it's name, it is is never really lost. It knows where it is... riding shotgun (cubby hole?) in my Maverick.
"A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never quite sure."
A man with two watches has too much time on his hands.
