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To: Sacajaweau
The poles shift continuously...This makes no sense...

The FAA changes the runway headings at airports occasionally as the magnetic deviation increases. For incidence, I attended Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach in the early 80's. The runway heading for the main runway back then was 06/24. It's now 07/25. Who navigates with a compass anymore anyway?

25 posted on 01/06/2011 9:12:23 AM PST by Thermalseeker (The theft being perpetrated by Congress and the Fed makes Bernie Maddoff look like a pickpocket.)
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To: Thermalseeker
>> Who navigates with a compass anymore anyway? <<

Well, if the FAA is still using vacuum-tube electronics, I guess they're also using magnetic compasses.

On the other hand, maybe they just assume pilots are too dumb or too ill-informed to know about correcting for magnetic deviation -- in spite of the fact that magnetic deviation is one of the first thing anybody learns when undergoing basic training for map reading, surveying or navigation!

39 posted on 01/06/2011 9:25:33 AM PST by Hawthorn
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To: Thermalseeker
re: Who navigates with a compass anymore anyway?

I guess that means I can forget the old saying I used when learning to fly back in the 50’s, “East is least and West is best”? And “True virgins make dull company.”

Ah, the good ol’ days!!

41 posted on 01/06/2011 9:30:22 AM PST by jwparkerjr (It's the Constitution, Stupid!)
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