B&G H2000 Pilot *DISCONTINUED* - Manual (Page 82)

h2000 User Manual
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CHAPTER 3: CALIBRATION
3.1 INTRODUCTION
WARNING
Every care must be taken when undertaking any
Calibration Procedure to ensure that the h2000 System
is calibrated accurately and correctly. Incorrect
calibration could lead to incorrect navigational
information placing the yacht into danger.
Calibration of an integrated instrument system is probably
one of the most misunderstood processes in the world of
yacht racing. Rather in the way that fast sails badly trimmed
will add little or nothing to the boat’s performance, good
instruments badly calibrated, will also achieve very little. In
the same way that just a few trimmers guard their skills in a
mystique amounting to a black art, the navigators who really
understand and can get the maximum from their electronic
partners, have tended to hide what is, like sail trim, a highly
logical understandable process in a veil of mystifying
jargon. This part of the manual hopes to remove some of
that mystique and break the calibration process down into a
series of simple steps, which, when carefully undertaken in
the right order, will consistently produce good results.
There are four sensor inputs to your system that are
fundamental to its integrated approach - Boat Speed,
Compass Heading, Measured Wind Angle and Measured
Wind Speed.