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 Message 690 
 Mike Powell to RUG RAT 
 Re: Airplanes + Geomagnet 
 17 Jan 26 10:36:27 
 
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> More like dimminishing navigation skills are not a good idea.

> geomagnetic disturbances should not affect INS navigation so airliners would
> not be affected.  My concern is that keeping a dead reckoning plot on the
> enroute chart prepared by operations used to be manditory!  Not so much any
> more.

If that is really the case, that is a concern.

Mike

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