Shaun Walsh Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 (edited) Just had a email linking to a briefing sheet about airspace restrictions tomorrow due to a royal visit to Bolton. It applies only to UAVs and is an area of 0.6NM centred on coordinates 533442N 0022547W. When I put those coordinates into google maps ,it's nowhere near Bolton. What am doing wrong or is it a typo in the bulletin? Edited January 19, 2023 by Shaun Walsh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil James Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 How about a link to the briefing sheet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Harris - Moderator Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 Is Wilmslow near enough? 53.3442N 02.2547W Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun Walsh Posted January 19, 2023 Author Share Posted January 19, 2023 1 minute ago, Neil James said: How about a link to the briefing sheet? https://nats-uk.ead-it.com/cms-nats/export/sites/default/en/Publications/briefing-sheets/RoFR-Manchester-AL1.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun Walsh Posted January 19, 2023 Author Share Posted January 19, 2023 By poking around in Google Maps it appears to be an area near Manchester Airport which would probably make sense, although it's probably inside the airport exclusion zone anyway. Must be inputting the coordinates incorrectly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun Walsh Posted January 19, 2023 Author Share Posted January 19, 2023 9 minutes ago, Martin Harris - Moderator said: Is Wilmslow near enough? 53.3442N 02.2547W Yes, Styal, it's me not putting the coordinates in correctly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leccyflyer Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 Like you said though Shaun, nowhere near Bolton even with those co-ordinates. If you put them in backwards, maybe it comes out as Ipswich ? 😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun Walsh Posted January 19, 2023 Author Share Posted January 19, 2023 6 minutes ago, leccyflyer said: Like you said though Shaun, nowhere near Bolton even with those co-ordinates. If you put them in backwards, maybe it comes out as Ipswich ? 😉 When I put them in (incorrectly) it came out as Mabelthorpe 🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lee Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 I don't know what mapping you are using but plotting on my quarter million aeronautical chart it is in Bolton. By coincidence I flew over there yesterday in a microlight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun Walsh Posted January 19, 2023 Author Share Posted January 19, 2023 (edited) 7 minutes ago, John Lee said: I don't know what mapping you are using but plotting on my quarter million aeronautical chart it is in Bolton. By coincidence I flew over there yesterday in a microlight. That would make sense as Charles is going to the town hall. Google maps shows 53.57826818457545, -2.4312479188180447 fot the town hall though. Edited January 19, 2023 by Shaun Walsh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lee Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 The Aeronautical chart is in the format Degrees:Minutes:Seconds wheras Google appears to be Degrees:decimal Degrees, hence the difference. No doubt there are some conversion resources available. Probably easier to use one of the Drone apps to check eg: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun Walsh Posted January 19, 2023 Author Share Posted January 19, 2023 Thanks John, really clear explanation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lee Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 I've just tried putting the coordinates into Google Maps using the degrees/minutes/seconds separators/symbols and it will accept them: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun Walsh Posted January 19, 2023 Author Share Posted January 19, 2023 Good to know, thanks John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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