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Re: Still on LOP's
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2002 May 5, 21:32 -0700
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2002 May 5, 21:32 -0700
This has been quite a thread -- over 121 messages on LOPs! Dan -----Original Message----- From: Navigation Mailing List [mailto:NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM]On Behalf Of Rodney Myrvaagnes Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 7:25 PM To: NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM Subject: Re: Still on LOP's I am stunned by this fine message. I can't find anything to disagree with. Apologies to all who expected something ill-tempered from me. :-) On Sun, 5 May 2002 11:25:58 +0100, George Huxtable wrote: > That would make Peter Fogg happy, but the >price to pay is that every cocked hat is correspondingly larger. Of course, >that doesn't conflict with my 1 on 4 contention, because the explicit >assumption there is that clockwise and anticlockwise errors must be equal >in number: not true when there's a systematic compass error. > Rodney Myrvaagnes J36 Gjo/a "Curse thee, thou quadrant. No longer will I guide my earthly way by thee." Capt. Ahab
