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A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Byron Franklin
Date: 2012 Apr 5, 12:28 -0700
Byron: you will not get good accurcy with a hand held or magnetic compass, but you can get the best fix possible with what equipment you have if you use my Franklin Pilotting Technique. It is in many Navy publications, but you only need a simple set of rules. THe magnetic compass has much randon error because of jumping aroundand unsteady movements, but reasomable fixes can be had. If you are in a Variation as area as noted on chart of over 5 degrees, correct or use the inter compass rose. On the internet or on navlist type 'Franklin Piloting Technique" Give a try and you will find it easy and useful.
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