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Old April 5th 07, 04:34 AM posted to rec.aviation.student,rec.aviation.piloting
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Default Why The Hell... (random rant)

On Apr 4, 12:22 pm, "Steven P. McNicoll"
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"Kev" wrote in message

ups.com...
VORs are allowed to get +/- 6 degrees off. [..]
http://www.naco.faa.gov/index.asp?xml=naco/faq#q2h


"The magnetic variation of the earth changes at a rate of 50.27secondsof
arc peryear." That seems a bit low to me. At that rate six degrees of
change would take 430 years.


Yeah, weird, eh? So I ran across this section of a site explaining
that it's often really a lot faster than that (2-25 years per degree).

http://www.geocities.com/magnetic_declination/#FACTORS

The "Local magnetic anomalies" section mentions the Ramapo area by me.

The "Where were/are/will be the magnetic poles? " talks about the
movement.

And the section about the "reversing Earth" theory is just plain
terrifying :-) (Not just reversal of the poles... but the entire
crust rotating upside down in a matter of days... ouch!!)

Kev