Simviation Forum - Earth’s magnetic pole shifts, screws up runway at Florida airport

Jan 8^th, 2011 at 3:13pm

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An airport in Tampa, Florida, has had to temporarily close its runways to keep up with Earth's magnetic north pole, which is drifting toward Russia at a rate of 40 miles per year.

Fox News reports that the international airport was forced to adjust the signs on its busiest runway Thursday because pilots depend on the magnetic fields to navigate. The runway will be closed until

Jan. 13, and will re-open with new taxiway signs that indicate its new location on aviation charts, the Tampa Bay Tribune reports.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110107/sc_yblog_thelookout/florida-te...

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Reply #1 - Jan 8^th, 2011 at 3:19pm

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I read this earlier. It's interesting, but my favorite part was the title:

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Earth’s magnetic pole shifts, screws up runway at Florida airport

Very professional. Wink

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Reply #2 - Jan 8^th, 2011 at 4:10pm

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Amazing how this has become a headline story. This is a common occurence, we had to change our 17/35 to 18/36 five years ago as its magnetic heading had shifted from 354 to 357 over the course of 60 years.

Next thing you know someone reporter will try and link this story to blackbirds... Roll Eyes

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Reply #3 - Jan 8^th, 2011 at 4:59pm

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I was about to post Grin

in response

to Brandon's post. Then I read the last line of your's Davy,

and had to change it to Grin

I thought of that too when I first read it. I bet On Demand has had a rush on "The Core" lately. Roll Eyes

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Reply #4 - Jan 9^th, 2011 at 11:30am

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Nice how they don't even bother to say what airport it is, as though there is only one airport in Tampa.

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Reply #5 - Jan 9^th, 2011 at 12:49pm

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What will be news is when the poles completely flip and then everyone is screwed Grin

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Reply #6 - Jan 9^th, 2011 at 3:27pm

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machineman9 wrote on Jan 9^th, 2011 at 12:49pm:

What will be news is when the poles completely flip and then everyone is screwed Grin

If you believe Hollywood, there won't be any news, or anything else either. Yet the scientists don't seem very worried about it.

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Reply #7 - Jan 9^th, 2011 at 7:54pm

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patchz wrote on Jan 8^th, 2011 at 4:59pm:

I was about to post Grin

in response

to Brandon's post. Then I read the last line of your's Davy,

and had to change it to Grin

I thought of that too when I first read it. I bet On Demand has had a rush on "The Core" lately. Roll Eyes

Oh, I almost had the funniest post of the thread. Embarrassed

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Reply #8 - Jan 10^th, 2011 at 11:46am

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this happens.

about 7 years ago they had to re-designate our runway to 14-32.

it used to be 13-31, but because the change was enough to round up to the next whole number, they had to redo the numbers Cheesy

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Reply #9 - Jan 10^th, 2011 at 4:56pm

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B-Valvs wrote on Jan 9^th, 2011 at 7:54pm:

patchz wrote on Jan 8^th, 2011 at 4:59pm:

I was about to post Grin

in response

to Brandon's post. Then I read the last line of your's Davy,

and had to change it to Grin

I thought of that too when I first read it. I bet On Demand has had a rush on "The Core" lately. Roll Eyes

Oh, I almost had the funniest post of the thread. Embarrassed

Cheer up Brandon. If you add the two together, it's a tie. Roll Eyes

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #10 - Jan 10^th, 2011 at 6:10pm

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This explains why I never showed up at work last Monday! Somebody moved the poles and didn't tell me. Tongue

Flying with twins is a lot of fun..

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Reply #11 - Jan 11^th, 2011 at 3:41am

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Steve M wrote on Jan 10^th, 2011 at 6:10pm:

This explains why I never showed up at work last Monday! Somebody moved the poles and didn't tell me. Tongue

Better than coming home to find you Mum & Dad moved....
and took the house with them. Roll Eyes

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