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Subject: Re: Circumnavigation
From: Noyce, Bill (william.noyce@XXX.XXX)
Date: Fri Jun 28 2002 - 10:45:12 EDT
> the rules say a pilot must set a course of waypoints within a band
> of the Earth that stays at least 30 degrees latitude south of the
> North Pole or 30 degrees north of the South Pole.
Seems to me it would be more reasonable to say "and" here, instead
of "or"... The actual FAI rules are more careful, and also more
flexible.
I think a circumnavigation really ought to touch at least one pair
of diametrically-opposed points on the globe.
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