How actual Gyroscopes work
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What is the problem to buy used gyro horizon and disassemble it to find out pendulum correctors or gyroscope fly-wheel in pendulum case, f.e.? Seriously, does selling used avionics prohibited in US today? Or you have no aviation garbage scrap-yards to find old gyro for free to look what's inside?
Why all flat-earthers are absolutely unable to do anything except copy-pasting dumb links and phrases? Even can't find a drawing of aviation horizon to find out parts that have to be added to gyroscope inside with only purpose to account Earth curvature. Really, flat-earthers who pose themselves as "critical thinkers" is the most incurious characters I ever met. I never saw a single flat-earther who posted his own thoughts, observations and replicateable experiment results. No one who did something himself. Only copypasting of stupid youtube videos made by swindlers for views, likes and ads money.
You could even remove correctors from gyro and just sit and watch how gyro without correctors will slowly change its slope according to Earth curvature and rotation.
we did, multiple experiments proved you wrong. . I never saw a single gloobe-earther who posted his own thoughts, observations and replicateable experiment results... For example - post a video of what you claim otherwise its just a baseless claim so you can spew your hate of reality, only copy pasta nasa videos so they can share their love of cartoon fantasies, make lots of money joining in the grabbity grift party.
Here's a simple experiment: Go rent an older Cessna 172 at a northern latitude. Northern Michigan or Wisconsin will do. While in straight and level flight, time how long it takes for the directional gyro (which unlike the attitude indicator has no extra hardware to correct for precession) to drift by 5 degrees.
Now do the same experiment in El Paso.
The fact that it drifts at all (which every pilot knows, including the shyster who made your video) is by itself proof that the Earth is moving, but you'll also find that the gyro drifts faster in Michigan than it does in Texas.
Don't use a newer model plane, or a fancy one, because nowadays they put all kinds of correction mechanisms in everything, and even back in the day the nicer planes had precession correction for both gyros.
from https://www.mcico.com/resources/flight-instruments/how-directional-gyros-work "Directional gyros are unaffected by the conditions that compromise a compass. The directional gyro uses a gyroscope that resists change to its position. It’s connected to a compass card, which moves with changes to the aircraft heading and displays the compass rose direction in 5-degree increments. Mechanical friction eventually catches up and will cause the directional gyro to precess.
Normal procedure is to realign the direction indicator once every 10-to-15 minutes during routine in-flight checks. Failure to do this is a common source of navigation errors among new pilots." So the answer is they precess due to mechanical friction, not because the earth is moving, stop posting false information plz, this is why people hate Flat Earth, it exposes their delusions about how reality really works
So mechanical friction increases depending on how close you are to the non-existent equator?