In aviation, aircraft compass turns are turns made in an aircraft using only a magnetic compass for guidance.
Read more about Aircraft Compass Turns: Description, Errors Inherent To Compass Turns, Standard-rate Compass Turns
Famous quotes containing the words compass and/or turns:
“However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and now and again they notice it.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become precious. Every trivial fact in his private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle, revisits the day, and delights all men by its piquancy and new charm.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)