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Old 7th Nov 2022, 08:27
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Ninthace
 
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Originally Posted by Mogwi View Post
We discovered that it hadn’t been programmed to cope with the southern hemisphere and always updated to the corresponding position in the northern hemisphere!

Made us larf!

Mog
In the days of Flight Systems training at Cosford, we taught the basic theory of inertial navigation. All examples involved ac flying E or N or even NE. Any other direction involved negative numbers which the would-be techies, being products of the then educational system, had trouble coping with.
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