Interesting site, but I question its accuracy, and there's even a warning
regarding this on the site. I looked at several airports around a given
area, and there was no reasonable pattern of variance. Furthermore, one
airfield was described as 8 miles NORTH of a city, when if fact, it was due
SOUTH of the city. Maybe I just hit on a couple of typos, but I like the
other site mentioned by someone earlier with the JAVA applet that calculates
variance rather than depending on "reported" variance from the 1980's.
----- Original Message -----
From: Hsu, Aaron <aaron.hsu@unistudios.com>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 2:57 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Magnetic Variation/Declination/whatever info...
>
> Here's a great resource for finding the variance in your area if there's
an
> airport nearby...
>
> http://www.airnav.com
>
> It's a web resource for pilots and has info on just about every airport in
> the U.S. If you click on "Airports" and type in the name of an airport
(or
> city, or zip), it will give you a list of airports that match. Select the
> closest one and under the "Location" information you'll find the magnetic
> "Variance" for that airport.
>
> It's a great site if you're a pilot or are interested in airfields. It's
> fairly complete and includes large airports as well as small airfields and
> heliports (including ones on the tops of buildings).
>
> 73,
>
> - Aaron Hsu, KD6DAE
> [athsu]@unistudios.com
> [dae]@pacbell.net
> No-QRO Int'l #1,000,006
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