MBDiagMan
Final Approach
I have a card compass in both my planes and it has always seemed to be pretty close even while climbing? Have others experienced the same thing? I hesitate to reset the DG in a climb, but am I just being too picky?
It gets wonked (please excuse the technical term) when you are accelerating - climb is reasonably steady state.
Turning is accelerating.There are also bank errors.
If you are banked, but maintaining a constant heading and velocity, the compass will still be sitting "level" and will not have an error. Pick one up and tilt it back and forth - nothing happens. Accelerate it in any direction and the card turns.We could let this devolve further into a heroically pedantic exercise, but to that end allow me to say that banking does not necessarily imply turning, and a plane that was banked but not turning could still have compass errors.
Your turn!
If you are banked, but maintaining a constant heading and velocity, the compass will still be sitting "level" and will not have an error.
Nope, the card floats "level" in that case. If you're banked enough that the card tilts, it's likely no longer free to turn and you have other issues.