hi, doing some nav with the pa24-250, i found the gyro compas drift was 
always -15°/hour.

I never went in a real aircraft except as passenger, but if i refer to 
this page:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heading_indicator

Shouldn't drift  be related to the sin(lat), and opposite sign in the 
southern hemisphere?

I think the relevant code is in instrumentation/heading_indicator.cxx, 
line 77:

 offset -= dt * (0.25 / 60.0); // 360deg/day

but i don't know c++, so can't propose a patch.

cheers

jano






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