While we were standing around on the grid, before today's Tasks were cancelled, the Team Captain of Canada told an interesting retrieve story from two nights ago.
It seems that they were victims of the classic mistake of mixing up "degrees, minutes, seconds," which seems to be what the outlanding office uses, and "decimal degrees," used by our InReach trackers and most everyone else.
The crew arrived at the wrong place, only a few minutes north of the glider, but they had to drive an arduous route on back roads to find their pilot, once they understood their mistake.
A similar thing nearly happened to us on the same day. Ever since then, we make a point of double-checking the data input step before letting the crews leave.
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