In a previous article, said:
Paul Tomblin wrote:

Our club's Lance has a Loran in it that as far as I know, only one person
ever used. And I'm not too sure about him because he always complained
that it couldn't lock on "if somebody flew the plane without turning it
on". Yeah, I laughed when I read that too.

Don't laugh. He's only missing one step in there. If you turn the LORAN off,
fly the plane more than a few miles, and turn it back on again at a different
location, it won't lock in. All it would take is for somebody to take the plane,

It couldn't lock on AT ALL? Or it would take a little while? I thought
LORAN was an absolute positioner (like GPS) not just a relative positioner
like INS.

Are you going to tell me that all those LORANs in people's boats have to
be on all the time the boat is being trailered?

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