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Subject: (no subject)
From: Steven Wepster (wepster@XXX.XXX)
Date: Tue Jun 12 2001 - 07:11:44 EDT
> ******************************************
> Navigation-L Survey
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> a) Dead Reckoning
> What is the method used most?
Mercator Sailing-: X
> b) Sight Reduction
> Which is your primary Sight reduction method?
Calculator(Name?)--------------: current method; I'm getting
lazy. Casio fx4500PA
Short Navigation Tables,
H.O. 211 etc.(Name?)-------: have used HO 249
Standard Navigation Tables,
229, 214 etc.(Name?)-------: formerly used Lieuwen's
ABC-tables; great fun
Other(Name?)-------------------: I'm experimenting with
lunar distances (in the context
of a PhD study).
> c) Plotting
> How do you do your plotting?
Home Made(Describe)-------: mid-latitude chart on ruled paper
with the lines running N-S
> d) Navigation Manuals
> Name your main reference manual:
Bowditch (pre-1995)----------------: X
> Name a manual/book that helped you the most:
Bowditch (pre-1995)----------------: X
> e) Do you use the Nautical Almanac?
Commercial-----------: X
> Computer-------------: sometimes Steve Moshier's AA program
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Steven Wepster
wepster@XXX.XXX
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