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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: Hawthorn

Maybe it’s so the pilots have one less thing to correct for.


45 posted on 01/06/2011 9:35:22 AM PST by stuartcr (When politicians politicize issues, aren't they just doing their job?)
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To: Hawthorn
Well, if the FAA is still using vacuum-tube electronics.

As an electrical engineer with my specialty being RF, who is also a pilot, this is something that crosses my mind every time I enter controlled airspace.....

87 posted on 01/07/2011 7:16:43 AM PST by Thermalseeker (The theft being perpetrated by Congress and the Fed makes Bernie Maddoff look like a pickpocket.)
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