Coursemaster’s Rate Gyro Compass offers the best enhanced course holding accuracy, reduces rudder movement and power consumption, wear and tear, and offers overall fuel savings.

A fluxgate compass, which must operate on a horizontal plane, may be affected by pitching, rolling or a fast turn; however, the rate gyro sensor responds only to yaw ie. a change in heading.

Coursemaster Autopilots software combines both the output of the standard fluxgate and the rate gyro. The fluxgate gives an accurate absolute heading free of drift, while the gyro gives an accurate short-term heading, free of acceleration effects.