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Re: Silicon Sea: Leg 32
From: Dan Hogan
Date: 1997 Jul 31, 12:15 PM
From: Dan Hogan
Date: 1997 Jul 31, 12:15 PM
At 20:35 7/31/97 -0700, Millard Kirk wrote: >Dan Hogan wrote: > >Sight Reduction and >Dead-Reckoning problem Leg 32 073097 Test your knowledge! Q1 through Q5 are all OK. >6.) 7d 37.0' N Something is OFF on the LAN calculation. >7.) We are south of our noon DR by 3d 15.35' > Boy, the Capt. is going to be mad again LAN is way off from DR > >8.) DR = 9d 05.4'N 64d 48.6'E DR is OFF also. Usually when this happens to me I either transposed a number, read it wrong or did some arithmetic wrong. Dan Hogan WA6PBY Yacht GACHA West Covina, CA Catalina 27 dhhogan@lightside.com San Pedro, CA =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-= =-= TO UNSUBSCRIBE, send this message to majordomo@ronin.com: =-= =-= navigation =-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=