Abstract:The measurement accuracy of the magnetic azimuth angle installed on the shipboard helicopter will not only be affected by the magnetic interference of the helicopter itself, but also by the magnetic interference existing on the ship when the shipboard helicopter takes off, lands and flies over the ship at low altitude. The paper discusses the working principle of the magnetic compass and the mechanism of azimuth measurement error, and gives a feasible method for magnetic interference calibration of the magnetic compass in the shipboard helicopter. At the same time, it analyzes the influence of the magnetic interference on the magnetic Cardinal direction angle of the shipboard helicopter when it flies over the ship at different azimuth angles and heights, and verifies it through MATLAB simulation.