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    Re: Emergency Navigation
    From: Gary LaPook
    Date: 2012 Jul 18, 13:45 -0700
    It doesn't use the GPS, I entered the location of my A.P.

    gl

    --- On Wed, 7/18/12, bill <billyrem42@earthlink.net> wrote:

    From: bill <billyrem42@earthlink.net>
    Subject: [NavList] Re: Emergency Navigation
    To: NavList@fer3.com
    Date: Wednesday, July 18, 2012, 12:57 AM

    On 7/18/2012 3:32 AM, Gary LaPook wrote:
    > I just download and installed an app in my Droid called "StarStruck
    > Navigation" it cost three bucks. I took the droid outside and aimed its
    > edge at Alkaid and the droid displayed an intercept of 4.368 NM away.
    > How does it do that? The droid is now my complete emergency CN kit.
    > gl
    >
    My toys! My toys! I can't do my job without my toys :-)

    My guess. It plucks the time out of the air and/or Droids internal clock. GPS in Droid provides lat and lon. Internal level gives the uncorrected altitude. App's program/database does the rest.

    In Bruce Bauer's book, The Sextant Handbook" there are concepts, prototypes and photos of the next generation--sextants with digital readouts and inputs.

    Droid?  Who would have thunk it?

    Bill B





       
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