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So you are arguing that if I can measure the distance I travel...

If I were to take a bearing on an object then wait till the bearing changed by 
one degree, my distance off would be 360 times my distance travelled?  At 2 
degrees, I could multiply my distance traveled by 360 and divide by 2 for 
distance off?

This is strictly a question. In no way is it meant as a comment or criticism.



-------Original Message-------
From: "Richard M. Pisko" 
Sent: 03/25/03 04:06 PM
To: NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM
Subject: Re: Distance off useing a hand held compass

However, I thought you mentioned a military compass, which
is graduated in mils in the US.  Could you not just take a
bearing, walk away from that point so as to keep the object
more or less at right angles to your (perhaps slightly
curved) path, and stop when the new bearing is 10 mils
different from your first?  That way, the distance to the
object will be 100 times the distance you traveled ...
barring local magnetic anomalies.




Dave Weilacher
.US Coast Guard licensed captain
.    #889968
.ASA instructor evaluator and celestial
.    navigation instructor #990800
.IBM AS400 RPG contract programmer

   

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