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		andkenneth on Nov 18, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Air traffic failure caused by two locations 3600nm... Contextually no one is using nanometers in aviation nav applications. Many aviation systems are case insensitive or all caps only so capitalisation is rarely an important distinction.

joemi on Nov 19, 2024 [–]

Similarly, no pilot in the Devil’s Lake region is using DVL to mean Deauville, and vice versa. :)

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