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Re: Calculate new coordinates given bearing and distance?
From: John Brown
Date: 2015 Nov 26, 03:17 -0800

Sam

I can see that you will be getting more confused by the minute. You might want to download Bowditch Chapter 24: The Sailings here.

2411. The Traverse Table and 2415. Middle-Latitude Sailing, might shed some light on your problem, as they apply to plane trig over relatively short distances on the earth's surface, where the rhumb line rules.

The chapter also contains the spherical trig used in great circle nav - a bit more complicated.

Best of luck and apologies if this does not help at all.

John

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