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Unofficial Coordinates for the Maun, Botswana Control Points

Courtesy of Russell Thorne ( thorner(at)xtra.co.nz )
Dated: 16 December 2010

Airport information courtesy of Michael-Lorenz Meier's database

Magnetic Variation: 9.6W
Time zone: Africa/Gaborone, Offset from GMT is 2:00

The primary specification of the waypoint coordinates is degrees, minutes, and seconds

Source: The Jacana GPS List and World Aero Data and although every care has been taken in its production, it is provided on an "as is" basis with no responsibility for its accuracy. Where the exact elevation of a waypoint is not known, the generally uniform country wide elevation of 1000 Metres is used. The uncontrolled frequency outside of Maun is selected at 50nm outbound on 125.50Mhz below 9500ft. Above 10,000ft contact Gaborone Control on 126.10Mhz or 127.10Mhz. Botswana has two FIRs, one Eastern 126.1Mhz and the other Western 127.1Mhz. Use 70 mile boundaries for reporting flight levels and 20 mile boundaries at low level when approaching controlled airfields. Routine positions are given as a bearing and distance from the Airport. Variation is about 10 degrees West.

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