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Author Topic: Home in wrong place - how to change.  (Read 2805 times)

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daveg4otu

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Home in wrong place - how to change.
« on: April 24, 2009, 04:41:41 PM »
Title says it really ...installed software - setting location (Choose  town nearest you) Chose Exeter(am 25 miles SW) - can't seem to erase the word "Home " and shift it  to where IO actually am.

Probably dead simple- but evading me right now- can someone please explain it in idiot-talk?
5 Miles N of BHD at 50.28.28 N/3.30.43W...400ft amsl.

Hampshire, Devon, Dorset and Isle of Wight  Airfields Websites.....
http://devonairfields.tripod.com/index.htm

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Re: Home in wrong place - how to change.
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2009, 04:48:02 PM »
Dave,

Use File > Preferences > Home Station Data and enter you Latitude and Longitude in the boxes as it says.

You need decimal degrees, like:

51.12345     -1.54321

Minus Latitude means you are south of the equator, minus Longitude (like this example) means degrees west.  You can use Google Earth to get your position or a GPS or any other form of online or paper map.

Just found this site via Google - put in your UK postcode and get lat/lon out - you don't need N or W but remember that you put a "-" minus for west.

http://www.nearby.org.uk/coord.cgi
« Last Edit: April 24, 2009, 04:52:54 PM by Allocator »

daveg4otu

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Re: Home in wrong place - how to change.
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2009, 04:56:06 PM »
Thanks - simple when you know how!
5 Miles N of BHD at 50.28.28 N/3.30.43W...400ft amsl.

Hampshire, Devon, Dorset and Isle of Wight  Airfields Websites.....
http://devonairfields.tripod.com/index.htm

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Re: Home in wrong place - how to change.
« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2009, 04:57:30 PM »
Dave,

As we've all said here on the forum, there's no such thing as a silly question as we are all learning :-)