Recent content by Ebergatsea

Excellent, that's what I was hoping to hear. Daydreaming of aerial videos of the ship underway was the one big motivating factor for me to purchase the P3P. I plan to spend quite a bit of time learning before the attempt and take it slow from there as well but I can imagine I will share the same...

That's where I ordered mine!

Will do. Thanks.

Nice!! How many flights off the ship did you take? And did it ask you to calibrate often?

I work in the Gulf of Mexico and typically go out close to 200 miles. This is in a southerly direction inmost cases and local magnetic variation will only change by roughly 1/4 of a degree from the home port. My hope is that if I calibrate on the dock away from the ship before departure that it...

That's good news that calibrating near all of the steel didn't affect the compass after it was clear of the ship. Very awesome photo. I can only imagine what the crew had to say about you flying off the cruise ship!

I work on a ship and I would love to get some great footage with my P3P. I'm concerned about the compass though from some of the things I'm reading here. It's basically a football field of steel moving along. Would it be best to calibrate on land prior to embarking and not calibrate while at sea?