The other good story is the C-130 navigation computer freaking out when flying into Bar Yehuda https://avgeekery.com/challenge-flying-sea-level/
replyI wonder if there is a list someone of planes that have had glitches when crossing various borders or boundaries on the Earth?
replyI remember hearing of a fighter a long time ago whose autopilot flipped out when it crossed the equator, due to sin(latitude) becoming negative.
That was the F-16, and it's either apocryphal or something reported from testing/flight simulations and not an actual incident with a real aircraft.
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