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Old 04-07-09, 09:57 AM   #11
Pisces
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Originally Posted by GinoC View Post
Good points. It's hard to tell if an actual chart projection like a mercator was employed or if it was some other rough approximation. I understand that they would want to avoid the whole issue of great circle routes versus rhumb line over large distances. I haven't actually measured the latitude scale, but it seems odd that there would be that much discrepancy with the actual value. All pretty much irrelevant anyway. I apologize for my pedantic reply.
Ahh, no worries. It's difficult to see the difference between a sim and the real world sometimes. Happens to me all the time.
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