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Hello Guus,

I am also kind of new to the list in the sense that I have rarely posted but
I am also very interested in Fred Noonan and Harold Gatty. I am trying to
write Noonan's biography so I thought I had better learn celestial
navigation and have just passed my RYA Ocean Yachtmaster but I am very much
am armchair navigator waiting for a chance to put it all to practice on the
ocean rather than just in my local waters. My other post today is about
sextants on aeroplanes which I understand is a hot topic on Tighar just now.
As you will know in Fred's letter to Weems he said that he carried a sextant
as a preventer. The discussion is about whether he would have discarded this
on his last flight. I personally think not because why would he abandon this
habit on the hardest flight of his career? In addition cannot sextants be
used in situations where a bubble octant cannot? Such as finding distance
off? But most of all I think he would have simply carried it as a back up.
These are just my feelings and it would be nice to hear the professionals
points of view.

Jackie.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Guus Dekker" 
To: "NavList" 
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 10:08 PM
Subject: [NavList 6578] New


>
> Hello,
>
> My name is Guus Dekker and i am new in this forum. So let me introduce
> myself a little bit.
> I am Dutch and live in Belgium, tomorrow I become 52 years  young.
>
> My predilection for (Celestial) Navigation start with observing
> atlases and  with an Amelia Earhart packet for MS flightsimulator98. I
> always prefer the vintage aircrafts. More and more I read and find out
> about AE and Fred Noonan, her navigator, and Harold Gatty,  I love it
> to know how to calculate ones position without visual landmarks. I
> join the Tighar AE forum and I buy books and printed out and studied
> lots of Celestial nav. books from the I-net, such as Bowditch, pub.
> 229 and 249. Sailing directions, Silicon sea questions and answers,
> Quartermaster 3 & 2, Jimmy Cornell's World cruising routes, Ocean
> Navigator on line, plotting sheets, Thomas Stout's An Ocean nav.
> exercise from Bermuda to Azores, vintage air navigation manuals TM
> 1 ..., World port index, Chart no. 1, E-6B computer ... etc. etc.
> So both ways of Celestial Nav. finding your way especially in the
> Pacific for aircraft and vessels have my interest.
> Maybe you are thinking that I am an armchair navigator ... Well ...
> OK,
> but on my flightsim boat/aircraft in "real weather" in REAL TIME, I
> will find my way to a little speck of land in the middle of the Ocean
> with my REAL WORLD sight reduction tables and my "real" simulated
> bubble sextant.
> When somebody ask me to join a circumnavigation as Cel.Navigator ... I
> will say yes ok I am able to do so,(I am also a cook ;-) and  a
> prudent navigator never relies on a single source of navigation
> information.
> So thats why I want to join ...
>
> >
>
>


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