NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2024 Oct 25, 11:05 -0700
I have used my Kollsman MA-2, a Kollsman periscopic sextant minus the periscope in Cessnas 172s. It has a very sophisticated, electronic averager. It is heavy but usable, I also crossed the Atlantic in a Cessna 150 using my A-10 which is the one I used to teach myself flight navigation while flying cargo at night in a PA-32R. It is light and handy and has a mechanical averager. But now my favorite is my A-7 because the eyepiece swivels so that you can take a shot off to either side while looking straight ahead through the eyepiece. It is handy in a small plane and can also be used easily (as I have done several times) sitting in an airliner seat crossing the ocean, since you don't have to contort your body to take that observation through the window at your side. This one has a mechanical average,
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