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Carousel IV-AC was installed in the Concorde and used to cross the North Atlantic at supersonic speeds. The name “Carousel” refers to the slowly rotating platform on which the gyroscopes were installed, to cancel out false acceleration readings due to gyro precession.
Though the unit looks primitive compared to modern ight management computers, it is not an easy device to operate. It requires manual entry of all waypoints as Lat/Lon coordinates and it has a limited memory that stores only 9 waypoints. Therefore, it is usually necessary to re-program the device in ight, perhaps several times. Procedures like DME updating to correct the calculated position are very tricky and can, if executed incorrectly, render the unit useless for the rest of the ight. Therefore, carefully read the following guide to familiarize yourself with the operation of CIVA.

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