Japanese Quake and the fall out for RNAVs
Hi all. as you will no doubt be aware, Japan has suffered significantly recently. Upon reading one news story today, I learned that the main Japanese Island is said to have moved 2.4m from it's original location. Pretty significant for such a large mass of land to move so far.
I was just wondering what implications this now has on Aviation. I know this is most definately not their immediate concern over there however, it does pose some interesting questions for the likes of us to ponder.
I'm not sure how or if this is enough of a movement for a review to be required nation wide over there. So if anyone has any thoughts on that please feel free to comment. I'm thinking that for RNAV apporaches that there maybe some implications for location of waypoints etc. Also for those that opperate aircraft with Inertial Reference Systems (IRS), there miay be some issues with exact locations on bays etc.
Is 2.4m enough of a move to put all this into review?
regards,
Bort.