NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Howard G
Date: 2022 Jul 9, 18:52 -0700
Hi Ron
Totally agree - being left-handed can be a curse at times - but most Lefties are by necessity partially ambidexterous (trying doing precision veterinary surgery with a right handed set of needle holders - disaster - a nighmare - so we always carry our own already sterilised)
Aeronautical sextants - the RAF Mark IX was always held in the left hand leaving the controls to be manipulated with the Right hand - but the good thing about aeronautical sextants is you either put them in a mount (kollsman) or hand them from a hook.
And to add to the business of taking 3 star shots - you had to turn on night lighting - red and had to go back to your nav table and write down the reading for the 1st and 2nd shot without killing your night vision.
A dim memory but we got good at it.
Howard G
