6 hours ago, W2DR said:

Given that the difference is only 41-43 miles (depending on the data used) how could they possibly compensate? What do they do to allow for the compensation? (A serious question).....Doug

I can't find the video anymore, Mentour Pilot talks a lot but it was in one of his videos. It was enough that a flight from Los Angela's to Sydney the aircraft computers would calculate the deviation, but not enough for regional flights. It was the first I heard of it but makes sense since computers are so accurate  

Edited June 10, 20205 yr by Matthew Kane

I guess it's the problem being an old man. Having lived through so many years it's hard to imagine the wonders of modern technology.................

On 6/10/2020 at 3:36 PM, Matthew Kane said:

I can't find the video anymore, Mentour Pilot talks a lot but it was in one of his videos. It was enough that a flight from Los Angela's to Sydney the aircraft computers would calculate the deviation, but not enough for regional flights. It was the first I heard of it but makes sense since computers are so accurate  

And that's a good thing. I flew from L.A. to Sydney a couple of years ago and would have really hated it if we missed the airport  - especially the runway 😄  . Thanks Matthew.

Edited June 12, 20205 yr by W2DR
kant spel

A quick update.

The pole to pole mission is still on track, though the speed is restricted by the fact that I need to have reached Palin's next destination in the book before I fly from the pervious one to that new location, and a) I'm slow reader, b) oher stuff gets in the way. 

Surfice to say I've just reachd Gonder (HAGN) in Ethiopa, having flown from Azaza Airport (HSGF) in Sudan, which Micheal calls Gedaref. That made it difficult to locate, but it turns out that FSX also calls that field Gedaref (the clue is in the ICAO code). For the record, I'm flying the vernable C172, the stock one with the dials, and I'm not using GPS, though I am using Tim Arnot's Plan G3 to create the flight plans.