What is gyroscopic precision?
Gyroscopic instruments on an aircraft work by gyroscopic motion. A good example is a spinning top, if you spin it on a board with enough grip to stop it slipping off, you can tilt the board (surface the spinning top is spinning on) however the spinning top will hold its original level/attitude due to angular momentum. Gyroscopic Instruments – turn coordinator – attitude indicator – dg heading When the A/C is kicked over the gyro’s ‘spin up’ to set the reference for your cockpit instruments. As they serve different purposes, the gyros arent the same. The mechanical design of a gyro is shown on wiki as usual: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyroscope Once the gyros are working in the aircraft (have to calibrate the DG heading to the compass because it simply holds the direction to a reference but has no idea where North is), the same principle applies as to the spinning top. When the plane takes off the attitude gyro will hold its axis of rotation and a attitude indicator will show the angl
