WET COMPASS MOUNTING LOCATION ?

[DCarlton]

Curious where most folks have their compass mounted.  My lighted SIRS Navigator is at the top of the center post.  Keep hitting my head on it when I get in the plane.  Finally broke the mount.  My heads interaction with the compass cost me another $500.  

[ArtVandelay]

You can get a panel mount compass, cleans up the view.

[EricJ]

3 hours ago, DCarlton said:

Curious where most folks have their compass mounted.  My lighted SIRS Navigator is at the top of the center post.  Keep hitting my head on it when I get in the plane.  Finally broke the mount.  My heads interaction with the compass cost me another $500.  

This is why I got a dry vertical-card compass.   The mount is floppy (the compass doesn't care) and nobody has managed to break it off since I installed it.    Mooneys are bad this way, since the post is the best place to keep the compass away from potential interferers, but intrudes out into the people maneuvering space a bit too much.    The dry compass is shorter, too, so it's not only less in the way, but way more difficult to damage the mount.

[LANCECASPER]

9 hours ago, DCarlton said:

Curious where most folks have their compass mounted.  My lighted SIRS Navigator is at the top of the center post.  Keep hitting my head on it when I get in the plane.  Finally broke the mount.  My heads interaction with the compass cost me another $500.  

There are two kinds of wet compasses - ones that leak and ones that will. For a few years Mooney mounted them in the middle of the glareshield. They went back to up on the center post since there were reports of kerosene leaking down from the glareshield onto the avionics stack.