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Old February 2nd 07, 07:27 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Jim Logajan
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Default "Urgent Wind Chill Advisory"

Jackal24 wrote:
"Jay Honeck" wrote in
oups.com:

About a month ago here, the high temp was -25F, with wind chills
around - 50F. Now that is an "extreme wind chill".


Good God, man. Where do you live?


I'm working in Bethel, AK.


Fascinating - the magnetic deviation from true north at the Bethel airport
appears to be large enough that runways 18 and 36 have a considerable slant
in the Google Earth satellite image, which is normally drawn squared with
true north:

http://www.google.com/maps?q=Bethel,...70124&t=k&om=1

So what's the deal with runway 29??