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Hi George H.
While I do not want to burden you with extra work , I "know"?(from your past 
posts) that you are able to give this chap more practical techniques that you 
have used in your sailings...say to France, in order to get him moving in the 
right direction. (Tidal currents, wind age factor, seamanship , fixes, 
reliability of charts use of Pilot Charts etc.
( You might also want to touch on the easting-westing routine )
Hope you don't mind my 2 cents worth .
Kind regards
Irv


-----Original Message-----
From: navlist-bounce@fer3.com [mailto:navlist-bounce@fer3.com] On Behalf Of George Huxtable
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 10:15 AM
To: NavList@fer3.com
Subject: [NavList] Re: Looking for references on "aiming off"


contact George Huxtable, at  george@hux.me.uk
or at +44 1865 820222 (from UK, 01865 820222)
or at 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary LaPook" 
To: 
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 6:07 PM
Subject: [NavList] Re: Looking for references on "aiming off"


|  "Aim off" is also known as "single line of position landfall
| procedure" or simply "landfall procedure."
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| gl
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| On 9/10/2010 6:20 AM, mjans wrote:
| >
| > I'm a PhD student and am working on a paper quantifying when and by
| > how much to aim off. Can anyone point me to any references on the
| > subject? For instance from [NavList 10886]:
| > "Noonan could be expected to have known this technique since he knew
| > Weems and Chichester had popularized in 1931."
| >
| > How did they do that?
| >
| > Has anyone heard of off-aiming in maritime navigation, perhaps under a
| > different name?
| >
| > Thank you very much.
| > Tom Temple,
| > Ph.D Candidate,
| > Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems,
| > Massachusetts Institute of Technology
| >
| > At the moment, my results are still preliminary but I would be happy
| > to share them with anyone who is interested.
| >
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