BBS: TELESC.NET.BR Assunto: Re: Airplanes + Geomagnetic S De: Rug Rat Data: Fri, 16 Jan 2026 08:08:20 +0000 ----------------------------------------------------------- On Fri 16-Jan-2026 8:42a, Mike Powell@1:2320/105.0 wrote: MP> Space Weather News for Jan. 15, 2026 MP> https://spaceweather.com MP> AIRPLANES 'LOST' DURING A GEOMAGNETIC STORM: A new study published in the MP> journal Space Weather suggests that flying during an extreme geomagnetic MP> storm MP> may not be a great idea. In May 2024, storm-time disturbances in Earth's MP> ionosphere disrupted aircraft tracking systems, with some planes briefly MP> appearing hundreds of kilometers from their true locations. Full story @ MP> Spaceweather.com (https://spaceweather.com) . More like dimminishing navigation skills are not a good idea. geomagnetic disturbances should not affect INS navigation so airliners would not be affected. My concern is that keeping a dead reckoning plot on the enroute chart prepared by operations used to be manditory! Not so much any more. Rug Rat (Brent Hendricks) Blog and Forums - www.catracing.org IMAGE BBS! 3.0 - bbs.catracing.org 6400 C-Net Amiga BBS - bbs.catracing.org 6840 --- CNet/5 * Origin: The Rat's Den BBS (1:135/250) ----------------------------------------------------------- [Voltar]