Originally Posted by
jimjim1
Re - co-ordinates.
A typo here. Supposed to be decimal degrees I guess. The number are all correct, someone stuck in the degrees symbol and moved the decimal point. Degrees Minutes.DecimalMinutes is quite a common way to write coordinates. It was used in a sailing course that I was on recently.
S26.67031 E028.28461
Notice 67.031 is very close to 40/60 x 100 and
28.461 is very close to 17/60 x 100
All very confusing.
Jimjim, good catch. I know about decimal degrees, but from the format of the coordinates it didn’t occur to me that’s what was intended. It’s worth noting though that S26.67 degrees is about 60 NM south of the crash site.