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Speaking of flight simulator war stories... A friend once smashed into a giant wall during take-off in a flight simulator he was testing, since the runway in qu
by microtherion 10y ago
Speaking of flight simulator war stories... A friend once smashed into a giant wall during take-off in a flight simulator he was testing, since the runway in question crossed either the equator or the null Meridian, and the cumulative altitude rounding errors caused a sizable discontinuity.
- tigershark 10y agoI hope that you mean Greenwich, aka meridian zero rather than null meridian. I don't really think that the latter exists unless you are an old C programmer flying quite high right now.
- microtherion 10y agoHeh. I hadn't realized that the German usage in this case did not transfer directly into English. Yes, I meant the prime / Greenwich meridian.