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|    Rug Rat to Mike Powell    |
|    Re: Airplanes + Geomagnetic S    |
|    16 Jan 26 08:08:20    |
      MSGID: 1:135/250@fidonet 696a4656       PID: C-NET AMIGA BBS 5.36b       On Fri 16-Jan-2026 8:42a, Mike Powell@1:2320/105.0 wrote:       MP> Space Weather News for Jan. 15, 2026       MP> https://spaceweather.com              MP> AIRPLANES 'LOST' DURING A GEOMAGNETIC STORM: A new study published in the       MP> journal Space Weather suggests that flying during an extreme geomagnetic       MP> storm       MP> may not be a great idea. In May 2024, storm-time disturbances in Earth's       MP> ionosphere disrupted aircraft tracking systems, with some planes briefly       MP> appearing hundreds of kilometers from their true locations. Full story @       MP> Spaceweather.com (https://spaceweather.com) .                     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.              Rug Rat (Brent Hendricks)       Blog and Forums - www.catracing.org       IMAGE BBS! 3.0 - bbs.catracing.org 6400       C-Net Amiga BBS - bbs.catracing.org 6840       --- CNet/5        * Origin: The Rat's Den BBS (1:135/250)       SEEN-BY: 1/120 10/0 1 18/0 103/705 105/81 106/201 123/0 126 180 755       SEEN-BY: 123/3001 3002 124/5016 128/187 129/14 305 135/0 115 205 220       SEEN-BY: 135/240 250 260 363 385 390 391 153/757 7715 154/10 30 110       SEEN-BY: 203/0 218/0 1 700 221/0 222/2 226/30 227/114 229/110 112       SEEN-BY: 229/134 206 317 400 426 428 470 664 700 705 240/1120 5832       SEEN-BY: 250/1 263/1 275/1000 280/464 5003 5006 291/111 292/854 8125       SEEN-BY: 301/1 310/31 320/219 322/757 341/66 234 342/200 396/45 423/120       SEEN-BY: 460/58 633/280 712/848 1321 770/1 902/26 3634/0 12 56 57       SEEN-BY: 3634/60 61 5020/400 5075/35       PATH: 135/250 115 3634/12 222/2 263/1 280/464 103/705 218/700 229/426           |
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