Andy Ross writes:
> 
> It's worth pointing out that a DG will work fine in the polar regions.
> Other than precession (which has a 24 hour period -- hardly a huge
> source of error), there's no way for it to "know" that it's over the
> pole.  It will even work fine on the pole itself, in the sense that it
> will always point toward the same meridian.
> 
> It won't tumble or do anything silly.  Only floating point euler angle
> computations have trouble at the poles; real hardware is a little more
> robust. :)

FWIW
I would be interested in test cases where FGFS has a 'pole' problem

Best

Norman

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