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Re: Role of CN at sea, was Re: Averaging sights ...
From: Ken Gebhart
Date: 2004 Oct 16, 20:02 -0500
From: Ken Gebhart
Date: 2004 Oct 16, 20:02 -0500
on 10/13/04 2:16 AM, Alexandre Eremenko at eremenko@MATH.PURDUE.EDU wrote: > I agree that the "justification" of Cel Nav as > a "backup for GPS" cannot be defended. > GPS is indeed more precise, more reliable and easier > to use. > My only rejoinder to this is that when one goes to sea, he should have a manual way of doing anything that is important. CN and a compass is the only manual way to navigate at sea (apart from watching the contrails). Ken Gebhart
