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Almost, it is actually a degree concatenated with decimal minutes: 39525 -> 39° 52.5'N; 75135 -> 75° 13.5'W

• jsjohnst 7y ago
  Are we sure that: 00039525 doesn’t become 00°03’95.25” And 80075135 doesn’t become 80°07’51.35” I’m not an expert in this field, but that seems to make sense to me. Very possibly I’m entirely wrong too.
  • DocOtak 7y ago
    For this one, we know what the answer is since this was the "departure" location, which we know is KPHL. When decoded in assuming it's some odd DD mm.m concatenation and assuming the 8 indicates a negative, it results in being a point on runway 27R/9L of the departure airport.
  • m11a 7y ago
    The two parent comments seem correct. The 8 is a negative. i.e. it turns N into S, and E into W. The last 5 digits are in DDM format, the first two being degrees, and the last 3 being XX.X minutes. You can verify this using https://www.pgc.umn.edu/apps/convert https://www.pgc.umn.edu/apps/convert and plugging in the departure and arrival airport coordinates. The arrival long/lat matches up with the exact coordinates for AMS airport in the same format. This isn't true if you interpret the coordinates in another standard way from what I can see. Edit: Your interpretation would suggest that PHL airport is in the Indian Ocean.
    • jsjohnst 7y ago
      > Your interpretation would suggest that PHL airport is in the Indian Ocean. Depends on how you use the numbers. If you assume the ~0° as W and the ~80° as N, that puts it over Greenland, which can be on the flight path between Philly and Amsterdam. I missed the context of it being the specific coordinates of the airport, rather than on the flight path between, otherwise I’d have probably came to the correct conclusion on formatting like you did. Ty!