alt Hacker NewsI wonder if there is a list someone of planes that have had glitches when crossing various borders or boundaries on the Earth?
I remember hearing of a fighter a long time ago whose autopilot flipped out when it crossed the equator, due to sin(latitude) becoming negative.
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Jtsummers • yesterday at 11:38 PM
That was the F-16, and it's either apocryphal or something reported from testing/flight simulations and not an actual incident with a real aircraft.
The Garmin systems I flew were only certified for ops south of 70°N and north of 70°S. Nobody knew what would happen closer to the poles. Maybe the system was just not tested to certification standards out there, or maybe it would do something really stupid and want to fly upside down or backwards! Either way, I wasn't going to be the pilot finding out on a dark night.