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Subject: Re: Newbie - Variation Question
From: Brian Whatcott (inet@XXX.XXX)
Date: Tue Feb 12 2002 - 07:54:36 EST
At 10:35 PM 2/11/02, you wrote:
>Brian,
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>so regardless of what convention is used (ie Easterly variation + or -) when
>Easterly variation is applied to true, the resultant magnetic heading will
>be less than true. Is this the case?
It's the "less than" proviso that can be troublesome.
Take the example of variation 15 degrees East for example - towards
the West (US) coast: where true is 5 deg, mag would be 350 deg.
Brian Whatcott
Altus OK Eureka!
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