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Re: Interesting ebay find: Plath suncompass - ciraWWII
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2014 Sep 24, 22:11 -0700
From: Bill B <NoReply_BillB@fer3.com>
To: garylapook@pacbell.net
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 8:56 PM
Subject: [NavList] Re: Interesting ebay find: Plath suncompass - ciraWWII
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2014 Sep 24, 22:11 -0700
I had the opportunity to meet with a new member of navlist, Ben Riecken, last Wednesday in Long Beach California where he overnighted before flying his Airbus out of LAX. We spent about 4 hours discussing the celnav he was learning to do in his airliner. He posted a video of his using an astrocompass in flight:
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From: Bill B <NoReply_BillB@fer3.com>
To: garylapook@pacbell.net
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 8:56 PM
Subject: [NavList] Re: Interesting ebay find: Plath suncompass - ciraWWII
On 9/24/2014 10:51 AM, Gary LaPook wrote: > When I first looked at the photo (and it was clear that it wasn't set > properly) it looked to me that the fork that holds the clock mechanism > was tall enough so that the clock with its dome could be turned upside > down for it to be used in the southern hemisphere and that would make > the alidade rotate counter-clockwise. Would it not not be, by default, "upside down" if taken to the southern hemisphere? Apologies Gary, I could not resist. ;-)
