Interesting consequence of improperly programming GPS route

So much for requiring crews to know their equipment - if they had not
placed a certain data card in, they would not have had to manually enter
way points... which was one of the first links in the error chain..

Dave

Icebound wrote:
This is from 2003 so it may be old for some of you....

When ferrying from the West Coast to New Zealand, what happens when you
program some key waypoints as Longitude WEST, instead of Longitude EAST in
the vicinity of the dateline.

http://www.tsb.gc.ca/en/publications..._sec2.asp#over