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September 24th 04, 10:49 PM
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"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message k.net... "Icebound" wrote in message .rogers.com... Since 000 is not a real direction... (North is 360) ..., 360 and 0 are used interchangeably for North. Well, yes and no. They mean the same thing, of course... but they are not really "used interchangeably". Direction 000 in a METAR is used to represent calm wind, not North wind. I have never seen "00" painted on a runway. Computer routines for calculating direction will often expect input and normalize results into the 1-360 range, not 0-359. Very rarely do you hear "... heading is 000" as opposed to "... heading is 360" etc.... 
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