Pilots, check your bearings: Boeing Field catches up with Earth’s magnetic field

KPAE runway headings didn't change. It was KBFI.

Yup, 2 days ago but only the two east-west runways, not the north-south.

Ahh, Wikipedia says 1999.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan_Washington_National_Airport

Correct. Not new but also doesn't happen that often. Requires quite a bit of mx for the airfield operator in terms of painting and changing out signs on the filed, though!

Sorry, but this is not correct. Pilots should ALWAYS have updated charts, especially if there are for example, at KLAX, 2 sets of parallel runways, and the numbers change causing all of them to be renumbered. instead of the 24s/6s and 25s/7s, you have 25s/7s for the north complex, and 26s/8s for the south complex. If you're told that you're cleared for the ILS 25R approach, and you have old charts, you'd be lining up for 26R, on the SOUTH SIDE, instead of 25R, on the NORTH SIDE.

This is why pilots have to keep their charts updated, because without that, you'd screw up a hell of a lot of traffic flows.

Better yet, if you're flying a chart that gets upnumbered because the runways were renumbered, and you're flying according to an old chart, you're lining up for the wrong approach.

IF anything, the idiot would be the person who believes that pilots don't change their charts. e.g., you.

OK. I don't think the idiot comment was necessary, I was just submitting a squawk that I found that was related to aviation.

Yes, it is very pleasing to those who don't understand the process and have absolutely no idea what they're talking about in the first place. To everyone else, it's just part of a process that has been going on for literally millions of years, with the poles occasionally reversing completely. Nothing at all unusual about it, and no one is ever "totally confused" about what's going on here unless they were coming into it completely ignorant of the facts.

Not sure if you're trolling, but the magnetic poles move constantly. Daily, even. What we consider "magnetic north" can move in a loop as wide as 50 miles. In fact, about 800,000 years ago the poles were switched around.

Thank you for a spectacularly weird comment!

According to radiometric dating and many, many other sources, the Earth is about 4.5 billion years old, not "millions" or "trillions" and certainly not mere thousands. And it's rooted in observable and measurable facts not mere "belief."

And, no, it has nothing in particular to do with the process of evolution, a process that is easily observable in practice going on *right* *now* -- MRSA, anyone? -- so the connection you're drawing is most bizarre.

And how you jump effortlessly from the migration of the location of the magnetic poles versus the planet's rotational axis to the unrelated topic of the origin of species is just creme de la weird.

Love everything about your comment. Thanks!