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Re: Circumnavigation
From: Bill Noyce
Date: 2002 Jun 28, 10:45 -0400
From: Bill Noyce
Date: 2002 Jun 28, 10:45 -0400
> the rules say a pilot must set a course of waypoints within a band > of the Earth that stays at least 30 degrees latitude south of the > North Pole or 30 degrees north of the South Pole. Seems to me it would be more reasonable to say "and" here, instead of "or"... The actual FAI rules are more careful, and also more flexible. I think a circumnavigation really ought to touch at least one pair of diametrically-opposed points on the globe.
