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| Thread ID: 138941 | 2015-02-12 23:41:00 | Paging our Aviators...... | B.M. (505) | PC World Chat |
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| 1394344 | 2015-02-12 23:41:00 | Is it true that Tauranga Airport and Melbourne (Tullamarine) Airport are at the EXACT same Latitude, namely 37.6673S, (according to Google)? I was expecting them to be close, but exact to four decimal places strikes me as odd. :confused: |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1394345 | 2015-02-13 04:00:00 | 4 decimal places seems to be narrowing it down a bit, but accuracy like this is one of the things that ensures only the escalators alight in the terminal, while the planes make other arrival arrangements outside. (Apparently Tauranga's escalator installers missed the target by a pretty wide margin.) ;) | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1394346 | 2015-02-13 04:46:00 | It would be more strange if there were no coincidences. Statically speaking. |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1394347 | 2015-02-13 06:06:00 | It would be more strange if there were no coincidences. Statically speaking. Wasn't Static discharged for shocking behaviour? :yuck: |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1394348 | 2015-02-13 06:35:00 | 4 decimal places seems to be narrowing it down a bit, but accuracy like this is one of the things that ensures only the escalators alight in the terminal, while the planes make other arrival arrangements outside. (Apparently Tauranga's escalator installers missed the target by a pretty wide margin.) ;) Sure as hell Tauranga Escalator Installers missed their target, but that’s not all. :lol: A few years ago major extensions were completed to make it “International”. The runway was lengthened and trees removed and trimmed in the adjacent Golf Course. Beauty, we can handle medium sized aircraft with ease, and big buggers at a pinch. Well no, you see someone forgot about Customs Facilities and there aren’t any. So now our you beaut airport allows you to stuff up your landing two or three times in your Cessna before you have to go around again. Jeeeeez they walk amongst us. Auckland Ratepayers, we know how you feel. However, can anyone confirm, from a source other than Google, that Tullamarine and Tauranga Airports are on exactly the same latitude? Someone with “Flight Sim” maybe? ;) |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1394349 | 2015-02-13 08:51:00 | Wasn't Static discharged for shocking behaviour? :yuck:Recharged today, behaviour's elf. bloody spell check.... |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1394350 | 2015-02-13 10:54:00 | Customs Hall and escalators were installed by a crew using Apple Maps . Security is seeking them here, they . . . . | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1394351 | 2015-02-13 22:31:00 | The following data is found in the Aeronautical Information Publication of both nations (the AIP is government data and the basis on which most references use): Melbourne: 6222 Tauranga: 6223 Expressed in Degrees, Minutes, Seconds of latitude: 37 40' 24" (Melbourne) 37 40' 19" (Tauranga) the difference is 5 seconds. At this latitude, 5 seconds is 30.8 metres, or 154 metres. If you really want to wow Winnies greypower lot with science, Melbourne airport is actually south of Tauranga's :D |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1394352 | 2015-02-14 00:38:00 | SNAFU !!!! the difference is 5 seconds. At this latitude, 5 seconds is 30.8 metres, or 154 metres. what I meant was "At this latitude, 1 second is 30.8 metres, and 5 seconds is 154 metres" And while we're at it, the difference in latitude between the interisland ferry terminals at Wellington and Picton is about 15" (seconds). Which means that one travels only 462 metres south to get from Wellington to Picton ... :thumbs: |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1394353 | 2015-02-14 18:52:00 | Thanks for that Wal, I thought it was too much of a coincidence for the two airports to be on exactly the same latitude. I knew they were close, because when my son lived in Melbourne I use to remind him his place was 36km nearer the South Pole than mine. And yep, even converting the coordinates to decimal confirms Tauranga 154m further North than Melbourne which one would hope to be the case. :D There is another old chestnut along the same lines which some members may not have heard that goes “What is the nearest Port to the Chatham Islands”? Seen that start a few heated exchanges in the pub. Not many think of Napier. :D |
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