NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Alan S
Date: 2012 Apr 8, 19:54 -0700
Lu:
Re the following observation you offered, "Your comments about slide rules reminds me why so many (especially on this list) are more comfortable with celestial than with GPS. With celestial navigation we enter a series of numbers from the NA and our own environment (ie, Lat, Long, and time) and we can see those numbers evolve step-by-step into a line of position. With GPS, the magic happens inside the black box and all you get is a pair of numbers. It all depends on how much we trust the programmers of the black box to get it all right."
Funny thing is the way you describe it is exactly how it works.
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