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Re: AN5954 bubble octant by Bausch and Lomb
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2012 May 4, 15:11 -0700
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2012 May 4, 15:11 -0700
See if this helps. http://fer3.com/arc/imgx/A-6-Octant-Manual.pdf "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good." For use in flight, the median is "good enough" (especially considering the magnitude of the other possible inaccuracies) and a whole lot easier to derive than the average for a changing altitude. Many octants used this method, A-7, A-10, A-12 and your B&L and probably others. gl --- On Fri, 5/4/12, Alexandre E Eremenko <eremenko@math.purdue.edu> wrote:
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