{"id":8014,"date":"2024-05-05T23:46:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T15:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/?p=8014"},"modified":"2024-05-05T23:47:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T15:47:27","slug":"magnetic-compass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/magnetic-compass\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnetic Compass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ref <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aviation.govt.nz\/licensing-and-certification\/pilots\/flight-training\/flight-instructor-guide\/compass-use\/\">https:\/\/www.aviation.govt.nz\/licensing-and-certification\/pilots\/flight-training\/flight-instructor-guide\/compass-use\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aviation.govt.nz\/assets\/licensing-and-certification\/flight-instructor-guide\/images\/IF-CU-FIGURE-2.jpg\" alt=\"Figure 2 Magnetic compass\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A <strong>magnet<\/strong> <strong>bar <\/strong>that is freely suspended horizontally will swing so that its axis points roughly north-south. The end of the magnet that points toward the earth&#8217;s north magnetic pole is called the north-seeking pole of the magnet.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-container\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"eb1P5OjDl4\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/whats-variation-deviation\/\">What&#8217;s Variation, Deviation?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;What&#8217;s Variation, Deviation?&#8221; &#8212; Tommy&#039;s Diaries\" src=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/whats-variation-deviation\/embed\/#?secret=UO1mKGlwGK#?secret=eb1P5OjDl4\" data-secret=\"eb1P5OjDl4\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ref https:\/\/www.aviation.govt.nz\/licensing-and-certification\/pilots\/flight-training\/flight-instructor-guide\/compass-use\/ A magnet bar that is freely suspended horizontally will swing so that its axis points roughly north-south. The end of the magnet that points toward the earth&#8217;s north magnetic pole is called the north-seeking pole of the magnet. What&#8217;s Variation, Deviation?<a class=\"read-more \" href=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/magnetic-compass\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button default\">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atpl-knowledge","category-aviation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8014"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8016,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8014\/revisions\/8016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}