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Teaching a Running Fix
From: Joe Schultz
Date: 2009 Dec 12, 12:02 -0800
From: Joe Schultz
Date: 2009 Dec 12, 12:02 -0800
A challenge, in the spirit of the intention of this list, which is the
promotion of the use of traditional navigation techniques.
You're tutoring a small group of new navigators. Normal people, ranging in age from 12 to "retired."
Here's what they can do on a paper chart/map:
1. Plot a track.
2. Plot and label DR positions, using
distance = speed x time
3. Plot and label a line-of-position to a visual object, understanding that it
take two or more simultaneous LOPs to constitute a fix.
Your mission, if you choose to accept: close the schoolbook. Explain, in
words your students can understand, the concept of a running fix.
No grades, no judgement. I'm interested in learning how you'd teach it.
Joe
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