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Re: Navigation Survey
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2001 May 25, 11:45 AM
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2001 May 25, 11:45 AM
Navigation-L Survey
a) Dead Reckoning
What is the method used most?
Mid-Latitude
b) Sight Reduction
Which is your primary Sight reduction method?
Short Navigation Tables
H.O. 211 or Nautical Almanac tables (sometimes)
Standard Navigation Tables
229 (usually)
c) Plotting
How do you do your plotting?
Home Made - 8.5 x 11 inch sheets of typing paper. Central meridian
and parallel drawn, plus an angled line for measuring longitude.
d) Navigation Manuals
Name your main reference manual-: Bowditch
Name a manual/book that helped you the most-: Bowditch.
e) Do you use the Nautical Almanac?
Commercial- though I don't have a current copy
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paulhirose@earthlink.net (Paul Hirose)
