{"id":170259,"date":"2025-01-27T10:01:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T00:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/airport-runways-renumbered\/"},"modified":"2025-01-27T10:01:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T00:01:15","slug":"why-airport-runways-sometimes-get-renumbered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=170259","title":{"rendered":"Why Airport Runways Sometimes Get Renumbered"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pilots can see large numbers at the end of the runways<\/a> when a plane comes to land. Do you know what they mean and how they are essential for pilots? More importantly, why would airports be changing these numbers? Airports worldwide need to change the numbers on runways due to the earth’s magnetic field moving around 37 miles (60 kilometers) each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The earth’s magnetic pole can move several miles each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,475,13240,3960,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-commercial-aviation","category-runway","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t