NavList:

Gary L. You wrote:
"Here is an index to my prior posts that have "flight" in the title..."
...followed by a link to the archive. Please don't do this. You also posted a half-dozen other messages last night that were nothing more than links to random old messages with no new content [these have been deleted].

I should clarify something. I wrote a couple of days ago:
"Gary, you apparently wrote that very fine article for O.N. back in 2008. Is there anything that you would add or change? Given the context of a magazine article, you obviously had space limitations. And given the passage of sixteen years since then, attitudes have changed and available resources have changed significantly. What would you recommend for a light plane celestial navigator as a basic suite of tools as a "hobbyist"? What would you recommend for a long-distance airline pilot looking to experiment with celestial, for example, on a trans-Pacific flight? Are there special concerns that these potential navigators should worry about? Any issues unique to different classes of aircraft? "

This was an invitation for you to write something fresh, to contribute new thoughts, to speak to the year 2024. If you don't have any new thoughts, so be it. But please do not just link to posts from years and years ago. Don't you enjoy talking, writing, communicating about celestial navigation anymore?? I hope you haven't reached a point where the only pleasure you get comes from debating Earthart theory crackpots. That would be a sad outcome.

Naturally a link to an old post can sometimes be useful, but please, please, please do not post messages that are simply lists of old messages. Content is king. Quality of new messages is what draws people back here. Telling them to 'go find it in the archives' instead... is like telling them to go away.

Frank Reed
Clockwork Mapping / ReedNavigation.com
Conanicut Island USA