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Navigation-L Survey

Subject: Navigation-L Survey
From: Greg Gilbert (GilbertG@XXX.XXX)
Date: Tue Jun 12 2001 - 01:39:52 EDT

I too am an amateur at navigation, but enjoy the correspondence on the list.
Here are my replies for the survey:

a) Dead Reckoning - I use the Traverse Tables from Norries.
b) Sight Reduction:
                        Primary sight reduction method - the
cosine-haversine method, backed up by a calculator.
                        I check all the arithmetic using Navigator Light Ver
3.0, from Omar Reis.
c) Plotting - universal plotting sheets (A3 size)
d) Navigation Manuals - Bowditch 1995
                                Blewitt, plus any others found in second
hand stores.
e) Nautical Almanac - mostly I use almanac information from Navigator
Light, but I still use last year's Nautical Almanac for reference.
Occasionally I tap into various Web based almanacs, especially the USNO
site.

Regards,

Greg Gilbert



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