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The submersible is also equipped with a depth gauge, lights, still and video cameras, a gyrocompass, sonar, and various types of communications.
The helmsman was using approximately 10 of helm to stay on course and was using the gyrocompass and landmarks as references.
The master and mate both noticed that the gyrocompass repeater heading was rapidly turning to the east.
The helmsman was using the gyrocompass and landmarks to determine the direction of the vessel in order to keep the vessel on track.
The vessel's navigation equipment included two radars, a Loran C, a gyrocompass, a magnetic compass, and an echo-sounder.
Fiber-optic gyrocompass and motion sensor, Octans is known for its robustness, precision and ease of use.
The gyrocompass was invented by a young German art historian.
When it reached its target, a gyrocompass and timing device in the rear sent it into a steep, spinning, near-vertical dive which stalled the engine.
Some fighter of this version were equipped artificial horizon to permit flying by all weather, and he there had same a plane fitted with a PKS gyrocompass model acting upon rudder.
Depending on the survey, this new system is connected to one or more external sensors such as motion and attitude sensor, gyrocompass, inclinometer or odometer.
It has radar, communication, satellite navigation, gyrocompass, GPS and other systems.
A professional ethic is a gyrocompass pointing in a precalibrated direction.
This ability suggested a number of applications for the gyroscope as a direction indicator, and in 1908 the first workable gyrocompass was developed by the German inventor H. Anschütz-Kaempfe for use in a submersible.
The direction a gyrocompass points is independent of the magnetic field of the Earth and depends upon the properties of the gyroscope and upon the rotation of the Earth.
Because of the conservation of direction as well as magnitude, a spinning gyrocompass in an airplane remains fixed in its orientation, independent of the motion of the airplane.
Because of the good visibility in the confined waters of the Canal de la Rive Sud, he was able to make good use of landmarks rather than the gyrocompass, which had some directional response lag.
What is necessary is to provide for the dynamics of direction in the form of a gyrocompass.
Sperry invented the first marine gyrocompass in 1908 and earned more than 350 patents during his career in the maritime industry.
Navigation underwater was accomplished using a directional gyrocompass or by following instructions radioed from the transport barge.
Large ships typically rely on a gyrocompass, using the magnetic compass only as a backup.
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