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Where Does Your Spot Think You Are?

EDIT: So, I originally entitled this "C205 Hyper Drive and LR Fuel Tank STC". Later I thought better of it and thought people that might be interested in seeing where Spot thought I was wouldn't read the thread since it referenced an STC. Also, the cool thing here is that it was a BCP brother, Glidergeek, that found it. So it's nice to know people are looking!

So, I went out for an hour flight to check out a local strip and one of those concrete arrows. Apparently I've had a hyper drive and extreme range tanks installed. Looks like I've also solved the endurance/time issue too. Next step will be teleporting! Beam me up Scotty!

I just hope if I ever go down that my last sent coordinates aren't some random place on earth!

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Re: Where Does Your Spot Think You Are?

More importantly did you find the concrete arrow? You know... way out there in the ocean?
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Re: Where Does Your Spot Think You Are?

that is so weird, i wonder what the explantion is. I've been using Spots for years and never seen anything like that.
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Re: Where Does Your Spot Think You Are?

svanarts wrote:More importantly did you find the concrete arrow? You know... way out there in the ocean?


Well, it took some serious piloting skills and eagle eyes, but I found it...right next to Amelia's plane. What was this one on? The first Fedex route to Hong Kong?

scottf wrote:that is so weird, i wonder what the explantion is. I've been using Spots for years and never seen anything like that.


Yeah, it would be interesting to know what got scrambled.
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Re: Where Does Your Spot Think You Are?

I've seen that before not often though. I've got a bookmark toolbar area where I've grouped most all you guys that show your SPOT pages and when I'm board or curious I'll wonder where the heck have my BCP brothers been flying. I just happened too look at GSPs page and low and behold I saw he went to Tahiti and back real fast :D
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Re: Where Does Your Spot Think You Are?

Cory,

You may want to contact Spot. You had an errant gps spot report on your trip back from Chicken Strip too. If I remember right, it showed a spot in Idaho when it said you were landing at Ogden.
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Re: Where Does Your Spot Think You Are?

amacbean wrote:Cory,

You may want to contact Spot. You had an errant gps spot report on your trip back from Chicken Strip too. If I remember right, it showed a spot in Idaho when it said you were landing at Ogden.


And yours shows you haven't been flying in the last 7 day's :?: What up with that Alan [-X
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amacbean wrote:Cory,

You may want to contact Spot. You had an errant gps spot report on your trip back from Chicken Strip too. If I remember right, it showed a spot in Idaho when it said you were landing at Ogden.


That spot in Idaho was us running up right after we got back to retrieve the kids. At least I think that is what you are thinking about. Still not a bad idea to drop them a line.

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amacbean wrote:Cory,

You may want to contact Spot. You had an errant gps spot report on your trip back from Chicken Strip too. If I remember right, it showed a spot in Idaho when it said you were landing at Ogden.


And yours shows you haven't been flying in the last 7 day's :?: What up with that Alan [-X


Russ, I would have had Allen flying a week ago last Friday, but rain scrubbed our plans!
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Re: Where Does Your Spot Think You Are?

So have you tried calculating what your ground speed had to have been to travel that distance between Spot updates 2 and 3? You must have been bookin'! Something on the order of 36,000 mph? That's well past escape velocity I believe.
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