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    How To Solve Gyro Error

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    This document provides instructions for solving a problem involving gyro compass error. It states that if a vessel's gyro course is 001° but the charted true course of a range of lights is 359°, the gyro compass error is 2° west. It explains that to find the gyro error, you subtract the gyro course from the true course, and that a compass reading greater than the true course means the error is west.

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    This document provides instructions for solving a problem involving gyro compass error. It states that if a vessel's gyro course is 001° but the charted true course of a range of lights is 359°, the gyro compass error is 2° west. It explains that to find the gyro error, you subtract the gyro course from the true course, and that a compass reading greater than the true course means the error is west.

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    This document provides instructions for solving a problem involving gyro compass error. It states that if a vessel's gyro course is 001° but the charted true course of a range of lights is 359°, the gyro compass error is 2° west. It explains that to find the gyro error, you subtract the gyro course from the true course, and that a compass reading greater than the true course means the error is west.

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    How To Solve Gyro Error

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    Rene Ezequiel Alvarado Berrocal
    This document provides instructions for solving a problem involving gyro compass error. It states that if a vessel's gyro course is 001° but the charted true course of a range of lights is 359°, the gyro compass error is 2° west. It explains that to find the gyro error, you subtract the gyro course from the true course, and that a compass reading greater than the true course means the error is west.

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    How To Solve Gyro Error


    While your vessel is proceeding down the channel you notice a range of lights in line
    with your vessel's masts. If your vessel is on course 001° per gyro compass and the
    charted value of the range of lights is 359° T, what is the gyro compass error?

    Given:
              Gyro course = 001°
               True course = 359°

    What is asked?
       
               Gyro compass error

    Solution:

    To solve gyro error we have to subtract the gyro and true course.

    PGC =   001°    (add 360° to the pgc)


    T/Co = - 359°      
     G/E =      2° W

                         * The gyro error is named west because PGC is greater than the true
    course. In case you forget how, always remember this that "Compass best, error
    west. Compass least, error east."

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