Has anyone found out the keybinding for resetting the gyro drift? Can’t for the life of me find it. I struggle to find what to look for in the controls list
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I did create my own, but it resets the gyro randomly and up to 120 degrees incorrectly… I’ve only tried it so far on the A2A Comanche… on a flight now, when it ends I’ll post where I found it! (Don’t want to go into Settings mid-flight, never know what might happen!)
Controls - Instruments and Systems - SET HEADING INDICATOR DRIFT
I don’t know if that it the same as gyro drift… but I thought maybe they’d mislabelled it. Can’t find anything else related ‘Drift’…
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Yes - if you have “spun” your gyro on one of the older planes, like the DH-1 Beaver, this keybind will let you fix the problem without having to re-launch your flight. There are two keybinds: “INCREASE HEADING INDICATOR DRIFT” or “DECREASE HEADING INDICATOR DRIFT”. Assign a key combo that isn’t already being used to each one; I used “RIGHT+SHIFT+B” for the Increase Drift and “RIGHT+CTRL+B” for the Decrease drift. Here’s how you can implement them. Get your plane with the wonky gyro in straight and level flight, with the Autopilot set to Heading Hold and cruising at a comfortable altitude where you won’t hit anything for a couple of minutes. Let’s say for example that the plane is flying on a compass heading of 270°, but the heading bug shows 180°; the gyro thus has a 90° error. Press the Right+Crtl+B (or whatever keybind you assigned to Increase Heading Indicator Drift), and the heading bug will rotate around the VOR dial or HSI compass rose. Keep pressing until the heading bug lines up with your actual course. If you overshoot, Tap the “Decrease” keybind just enough times to get the heading bug back to where you want it.
On FSX, if I am remembering correctly, pressing the “B” key would auto-correct gyro drift. I can’t find a keybind in FS2024 that does this automatic drift correction, but the Increase/Decrease Heading Indicator Drift function does the same thing, just manually.