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Subject: Re: Newbie - Variation Question
From: Brian Whatcott (inet@XXX.XXX)
Date: Mon Feb 11 2002 - 18:59:08 EST
At 01:04 PM 2/11/02, you wrote:
>Pierre,
>
>Thanks for the reply but I am still a little confused. Even if the French
>way is to add the negative easterly variation, shouldn't the resultant
>magnetic heading be the same as the non French way?
...
>My other fixed GPS (Garmin) subtracts the Easterly variation to agree with
>the compass.
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>Any other clarification would be appreciated.
>
>Regards,
>
>Andrew Denman
Subtracting an Easterly Variation marked with a positive sign, gives the
same result as
adding an Easterly variation marked with a negative sign.
It's a matter of convention.
Brian Whatcott
Altus OK Eureka!
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