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Teaching a Running Fix
From: Joe Schultz
Date: 2009 Dec 12, 12:02 -0800
From: Joe Schultz
Date: 2009 Dec 12, 12:02 -0800
A challenge, in the spirit of the intention of this list, which is the promotion of the use of traditional navigation techniques. You're tutoring a small group of new navigators. Normal people, ranging in age from 12 to "retired." Here's what they can do on a paper chart/map: 1. Plot a track. 2. Plot and label DR positions, using distance = speed x time 3. Plot and label a line-of-position to a visual object, understanding that it take two or more simultaneous LOPs to constitute a fix. Your mission, if you choose to accept: close the schoolbook. Explain, in words your students can understand, the concept of a running fix. No grades, no judgement. I'm interested in learning how you'd teach it. Joe -- NavList message boards: www.fer3.com/arc Or post by email to: NavList@fer3.com To , email NavList+@fer3.com