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From: Alan S
Date: 2012 Apr 7, 16:38 -0700
Re Power Squadron courses, I started the Nav. course, having previously done Jr. Nav.
The Nav course required reduction of sights and the plotting thereof, as I recall, using both Law of Cosines and the Nautical Almanac Tables. Again, as I recall, I have the plots and calculations around somewhere, I ended up with approximately the same calculated fixes, though it did seem to me that the so-called Concise Tables are a pain to use.
They do work though, one of these days, I will give the Ageton Tables a try, and see where it is that I park the aircraft carrier. Seems to me that the Law of Cosines is the easiest to work with, asasuming the presence of an eldctronic calculator.
While it might be dooable, I would not attempt to run LOC calculations with a slide rule, especially given how clumsy I am with one.
Alan
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