NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
Re: Desert Navigator Obituary
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2022 Apr 22, 11:18 -0700
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2022 Apr 22, 11:18 -0700
Ah yes, thanks for that David. I had missed it. I read the Telegraph...
Yes, this claim that he could find his position to 200m using a theodolite. I remember Jimmy Patch, an ex LRDG navigator who was a contributor to this list many years ago claiming 300m. Do we believe that...? What is the error budget for a theodolite sighting?
I remember taking the GPS position of "Gravel Cairn" and it was some 6' away from the LRDG recorded position of that site.
