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Re: Silicon Sea: Leg 32
From: Dan Hogan
Date: 1997 Jul 31, 12:15 PM
From: Dan Hogan
Date: 1997 Jul 31, 12:15 PM
At 20:35 7/31/97 -0700, Millard Kirk wrote:
>Dan Hogan wrote:
>
>Sight Reduction and
>Dead-Reckoning problem Leg 32 073097 Test your knowledge!
Q1 through Q5 are all OK.
>6.) 7d 37.0' N
Something is OFF on the LAN calculation.
>7.) We are south of our noon DR by 3d 15.35'
> Boy, the Capt. is going to be mad again LAN is way off from DR
>
>8.) DR = 9d 05.4'N 64d 48.6'E
DR is OFF also.
Usually when this happens to me I either transposed a number, read it wrong
or did some arithmetic wrong.
Dan Hogan WA6PBY Yacht GACHA
West Covina, CA Catalina 27
dhhogan@lightside.com San Pedro, CA
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