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Re: FAA-H-8083-18 - Flight Navigator Handbook
From: Hewitt Schlereth
Date: 2013 Jun 6, 12:49 -0700
From: Hewitt Schlereth
Date: 2013 Jun 6, 12:49 -0700
Hey, Andrés, congratulations. ¿Was this was your first solo? Your note sounds like it was. If so, it's a great day, isn't it. I flew light planes for ten years and thoroughly enjoyed it. Never did celestial from a plane, though folks like Francis Chichester and Gary have. Gary's even posted several videos.
Hewitt
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Flight Navigator Handbook (PDF)Recently I made my first flight as a pilot in an ULM (see pic), 20 minutes, amazing!I have some question for Gary LaPook, or other celestial navigators and pilots:The flight was very stable, but without an autopilot an aircraft bubble sextant is suitable for shooting the stars in a ULM where the pilot and the navigator is the same person?. I have only experience in marine sextants.
There Is available a free book by FAA including celestial navigation:
Thanks,--
Andrés Ruiz
Navigational Algorithms
http://sites.google.com/site/navigationalalgorithms/