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Re: Fix from 2 Bearings

From: Dan Allen (no email)
Date: Fri Jul 11 2003 - 13:06:24 EDT

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    On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 08:30 AM, wrote:

    > I assume that we are to apply the correction for deviation ourselves...

    Yes.

    > My FIX was at 48d 32.3'N 122d 44.0'W

    Very good! I do not actually know my exact position at the time of the
    fix, but it is within a minute of lat/lon of what you have determined.

    > I used a spreadsheet I wrote that solves a two-LOP fix using rhumb
    > lines determined by mid-latitude.

    Is this available? Could you share the details of how you solve this?

    Dan


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