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Subject: SURVEY
From: Henry S. McCoy, Jr. (hsmccoy@XXX.XXX)
Date: Mon Jun 11 2001 - 15:44:25 EDT
Navigation-L Survey
a) Dead Reckoning
What is the method used most?
Mid-Latitude-----:
Mercator Sailing-:
Rhumb Line-------:
Other(Name?)-----: COURSE DISTANCE
b) Sight Reduction
Which is your primary Sight reduction method?
Computer Program(Name?)--------: THE CAP'N
Calculator(Name?)--------------: HEWLETT PACKARD 48GX WID APPLIED
PROGRAMMING SYSTEMS
NAVCOM 48 ROM
Short Navigation Tables,
H.O. 211 etc.(Name?)-------:
Standard Navigation Tables,
229, 214 etc.(Name?)-------: H. O. PUB. NO. 249
Other(Name?)-------------------:
c) Plotting
How do you do your plotting?
Computer Program(Name?)---: THE CAP'N
Universal Plotting Sheets-: XXXX
Manoeuvring Board---------:
Radar Plotting Sheets-----:
Home Made(Describe)-------:
d) Navigation Manuals
Name your main reference manual:
Bowditch 1995 Ed.------------------:
Bowditch (pre-1995)----------------: XXXX
Mixter (Primer of Navigation)------: XXXX, DUTTON'S NAVIGATION &
PILOTING
Chapman's--------------------------: XXXX
Celestial Navigation for Yachtsman-:
Shute----------------------------------:
Shirk----------------------------------:
Porter---------------------------------:
Hemenway-------------------------------:
Name a manual/book that helped you the most:
W.F. Buckley @ Airborne/Video----------:
Le Cours des Glenans-------------------:
Bowditch-1995--------------------------: XXXXX
Practical Celestial Navigation(HO 229)-:
Self-Contained Celestial Navigation----:
Mariner's Celestial Navigation---------:
Navigation Afloat----------------------:
Cruising Under Sail (E. Hiscock)-------:
Shute----------------------------------:
Shirk----------------------------------:
Porter---------------------------------:
Hemenway-------------------------------:
Mixter---------------------------------: XXXX
e) Do you use the Nautical Almanac?
Commercial-----------:
USNO-----------------: XXXX
Self-design Software-:
Computer-------------: (I.C.E) INTERACTIVE COMPUTER EPHEMERIS
USNO Web Site--------:
Henry S.McCoy, Jr.
WH6P
USY KAMA
KaneoheBay Hawaii
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