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Re: Latitude and Longitude by "Noon Sun"
From: Charles Seitz
Date: 2005 Jun 5, 14:13 -0400
From: Charles Seitz
Date: 2005 Jun 5, 14:13 -0400
Instructions for my plastic sextant use a 'noon sight' example for obtaining a fix. Obtaining both longitude and latitude by one simple process is alluring to me. There are purists who scoff at imperfection and those, like myself, who are not into nuance but are just trying to comprehend basics. When I navigate accurately enough to sight a landmark for my final approach, it's a success. May I suggest a noon sight fix might suffice for verification of the dead reckoning position required for a direction/intercept fix? Might that fix actually be superior to a DR position that hasn't been updated during a period of prolonged cloud cover? --- CHAS
