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Old 28-07-2009, 10:21   #1
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Tourists miss isle after GPS blunder - Yahoo! News

I know this happens on flying, on occasion --- always makes me quadruple check any coordinates I enter!!!! A little Lysdexia can go a long way...

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Old 29-07-2009, 07:32   #2
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MISSING the island because of GPS errors might be bad. But HITTING the island because of GPS error is far worse.
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Bad heading. - There was apparently no GPS error at all The machine took them to exactly the right place.
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