sounds like a good plan ken.

one note, in aviation north is always 36 or 360 (instead of 0).

On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 1:40 PM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote:

> As a non pilot, I learned something today from the  Internet.  Airports
> sometimes have to renumber runways when the local magnetic field changes.
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> Those numbers are the compass bearing to the nearest 10 degrees.  So
> runway 22R would be oriented at 220 degrees, the R designating the right
> runway of a pair of parallel runways.
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> I was thinking that would a way to number AP sectors, instead of what we
> do now, which is clockwise starting at AP1 being north.  We could have AP0,
> 9, 18 and 27.  Or 0, 6, 12, 18, 24 and 30.  But then if the magnetic field
> of the earth shifted, we’d have to renumber.
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