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Re: Calculate new coordinates given bearing and distance?
From: John Brown
Date: 2015 Nov 25, 13:14 -0800
From: John Brown
Date: 2015 Nov 25, 13:14 -0800
I should have acknowledged that the GC was divided into a series of short rhum lines. Also, for non GC distances greater than about 100 miles, mercator sailing replaced mid-lat sailing, as in P/R or other methods.
John
