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Compass works but only north is correct

Posted by Neil Smith on June 17, 2011 at 3:50pm

Hi all,

   After running the APM mission planner several times and manually entering declination in the cli, my compass works but only North is correct. As I rotate the quad by hand, East and West are off a bit, South is way off. My declination is 5.53w and I enter it as -5.53 

If I look at show under cli, it shows 5.883

 

Am I doing something wrong?

 

Neil

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    Chris Anderson June 17, 2011 at 4:11pm
    the .53 -> .883 is correct: it's just converting minutes to decimal. Not sure about the negative thing, however (where are you based?). Regardless, the code should be retaining the sign of the input...
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