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Re: Re:Europa Mail:Instruments

Subject: Re: Re:Europa Mail:Instruments
From: Peter Lert <plert@csn.net>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 19:04:02
Interesting thought. Given the extremely small and cheap rate gyros 
available today (eight pin DIP package), that might be a basis for an 
electronic attitude indicator; after all, it's how S-tec autopilots work.

        Believe it or not, if all you're looking for is an emergency or 
backup way of knowing if you're wings level, someone here in the US 
figured out a way to parse out the track data from a GPS (NMEA output 
sentence) and use that as a sensor.  The idea is constant track=wings 
level.  I'll try to find the reference and post it here.



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