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Re: Death to the Intercept Method!
From: John D. Howard
Date: 2016 Nov 4, 16:00 -0700
From: John D. Howard
Date: 2016 Nov 4, 16:00 -0700
Frank,
I just read Bob's message and now understand why the Sumner LOP method did not catch on very quickly. Even now, when almost all navigators understand the concept of a LOP the time sight is thought of as Longitude and needing a noon sight for Latitude. The idea that two time sights with slightly different latitudes will produce a LOP as good as the StHilary intercept LOP seems hard to grasp.
We are a consertive group.
John H.
