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I totally support Fred on this....
Peter
> I thought the postings about GPS were of relevance to
> Nav-l for two reasons. First, they addressed the question
> of whether traditional navigation has been supplanted by
> GPS, which it has not in the Canadian and British navies,
> but has under some merchant captains but not under others.
> Second, the postings addressed the fallibility of GPS; if
> it's infallible, there's no need for traditional nav, but
> it's not infallible, as has been pointed out.
>
> The postings were not about how to use a GPS unit to
> calculate set, etc, which I would find out of bounds
for
> Nav-l, but rather about it's use and fallibility in
> reference to traditional nav.
>
> Fred
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