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From: "Gary LaPook" 
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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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| On 9/10/2010 6:20 AM, mjans wrote:
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| > 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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