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Re: What precision is required in cel nav?
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2015 Jul 22, 17:26 +0100
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2015 Jul 22, 17:26 +0100
I read it off my GPS.
Yeah Lu, good answer!
But you are talking about the real world. On this list we are in the let's-pretend world where GPS satellites don't exist.
The point I was making was that while one may not think that great precision in positional knowledge is needed in the middle of the ocean, where one is a thousand miles from one's final destination, one may find that there is indeed one situation where one suddenly needs to know one's latitude and longitude very precisely so that one may be rescued without a prolonged search for one!
From: Geoffrey Kolbe <NoReply_GeoffreyKolbe@fer3.com>Suppose you are in mid-ocean and your boat is run down by a tanker with no look-out, or the engines on your plane ice up and you have to ditch in the ocean. You have time to make a May-Day distress call and you are asked to give your position......
