Gyro angle in simulation vs reality?

[GuyM142]

Originally Posted by Greg McKaskle

The WPILiib VIs should behave the same for a simulated, analog, and digital gyro. The conventions of the simulator were quite different and had to be manipulated in order to fit into WPILib, and it seems like you've discovered a bug.

If you select the gyro VI in your code and choose Edit>>Create SubVI, it will wrap the WPILib version in a simple subVI. Try to modify it to make the simulated one behave the same as real-world, then use that instead until the bug gets fixed.

Greg McKaskle

I can't really change the code inside the gyro VI, I get to a level where I need to enter a password in order to make changes to the VI.
But i noticed that the angle value is coming from a a Honeywell Compass reference.
I don't get it.. why would the VI called gyro and inside it'll be a compass?
The gyro output really does behave like a compass would.