Hey, my Foster does that too! You can reinitialize it in the air, but it requires
you to enter the lat-lon from the GPS (well, sectionals work too), wearing a
ceremonial robe, a couple of magic incantations, and a plastic Jesus on the
glareshield to make it happen. You'd better have a second set of eyes to look for
traffic while you are doing it too. Flying through a thunderstorm can also make it
lose its position (don't ask me how I know).

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote:


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,
fly a bit, notice the LORAN is on and turn it off, then return to base. My
Foster unit has been known to do this after having been moved as little as
twenty miles, but it usually takes more than that.

George Patterson
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