NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: David Pike
Date: 2025 Feb 26, 02:21 -0800
Joe Plazak you wrote: “Dave: Shooting 7 stars in 13 minutes…wow!”
C’est un homme! Not quite, more like two stars in 13 minutes as in AABBBAA. It’s not difficult with a 5-man crew. The Captain flies the aircraft because he’s had the most practise. The Co-pilot notes the speed change, because he’s got the easiest to read IAS meter. The AEO calls the times, because he’s invariably got the most expensive watch. The Nav-Radar takes the shots, because he’s the general dogsbody in the crew when it comes to unstrapping and climbing around inside the cabin, and the Nav-Plotter notes the heading changes because he’s got the most accurate heading indicator and writes everything down. The Nav-Plotter then plots the fix on his actual chart where it’s assessable afterwards and not on a Perspex disc. DaveP
