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Re: The Great Circle Challenge
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2014 Dec 26, 12:13 -0800
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2014 Dec 26, 12:13 -0800
Attached is the Doniol longhand solution that took 8 minutes to get total distance and initial course. I noticed a 12 NM difference between my smart phone GC calculator and the Doniol result which must be the ellipsoid difference.
Greg Rudzinski