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Do I need Compass re-calibration when I travel out of country?

Posted by Shyam Balasubramanian on April 20, 2014 at 10:28am

Hi Folks,

I live in the Netherlands and going to Denmark over the weekend (distance: 800 km, up North). I use the Arducopter v3.0 firmware, and it hovers quite well at home.

The magnetic declination as found here, gives me the following values (Degrees & minutes):

Netherlands: 0' 37'

Denmark: 2' 59

My question is do I need to do the compass re-calibration and Compass-mot setup again, in order to see the same (good performance)? Does this distance, make a lot of difference or not really?

Comments are appreciated.

Regards,

Shyam

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Richard Boyhan April 21, 2014 at 5:57am

Moving north south or south north is not a big deal. But if you travel east or west a great distance it is recommended to recalibrate the Compass but it doesn't hurt to do it anyway regardless of which direction you travel on the Compass. I would recommend probably doing a compass calibration if you travel @400 km away.
- Shyam Balasubramanian > Richard Boyhan April 21, 2014 at 6:39am
  
  Thanks Richard, for the information.
  
  I will do so accordingly.
  
  Regards,
  
  Shyam