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Re: Variation of compass
From: Brian Whatcott
Date: 2002 Oct 6, 12:08 -0500
From: Brian Whatcott
Date: 2002 Oct 6, 12:08 -0500
At 12:25 PM 10/3/02, Mike, you wrote: >Great circle is what you want, much the same as a fix on a radio beacon. > >-- > Mike Wescott > Wescott_Mike@EMC.COM ...a great circle, such as the magetic bearing radial given by the VOR navaid, which only pretends to be a rhumb line. (and so limits the useful range of that aid). Brian W Brian Whatcott Altus OK Eureka!
