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Subject: Re: Dozier Formula, which quadrant
From: Dan Hogan (dhhogan@XXX.XXX)
Date: Wed Nov 21 2001 - 10:47:14 EST
Yep, the good old Law of Cosines. I used it for several years. Works fine on
board, but requires constant visualization of what direction the body is when
sitting at a desk developing nav problems. So I switched to Dozier. Also I
less possibility of error when tired and green around the gills.
On 20 Nov 2001, at 17:39, nigel_gardner wrote:
> Harking back to days before all this electronic jazz. quartz watches, lap tops
> and goodness knows what we did not bother in the calculations about working
> out Z in 360 but just got the figure out and then expressed it in terms of the
> elevated pole and whether the body was East or West of you then say Zn was 234
> and you were in the northern hemisphere and the body was just setting then the
> calcs would have given a figure for Z of 126 so it would be written (and
> plotted) as N126W.
>
>
> NG.
Dan Hogan
dhhogan@XXX.XXX
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