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Re: The "big" sextant manufactures
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2007 Nov 08, 19:56 -0800
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2007 Nov 08, 19:56 -0800
And if you use the flight navigation technique of precalculating your sights you will have the altitude available for preseetting your sextant and be plotting your fix much sooner after the last shot. Gary Greg Rudzinski wrote: ".... Field of view issues can be reduced if a sextant is preset to the approximate altitude. Any navigation calculator will make short work of the presetting task. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
