Saura of Japan's type 3000AT autopilot. It can drive a compass repeater from the same company which uses a traditional-type card display.
A COMPASS heading repeater which features a large and easy-to-use compass card is being sold by Saura Keiki Seisakusho Co. Ltd. of Urawa, Saitama, Japan.
The company says that a majority of compass users are used to using a rotating compass card rather than a digital display, which is the only way some compasses now show a heading.
"A new generation of gyro compass - the GPS gyro compass - is being introduced by various navigational instrument manufacturers.
