Do you have a minute? Fixed compass or lifting compass?


The magnetic compass is the basic instrument for navigation. This week, FX presents in video the Iris 100 compass from Plastimo. A model clever enough to be used as a fixed course compass and a bearing compass. Demonstration in video.

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