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From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2013 Mar 21, 22:49 -0700
For a real life example of running fixes see: https://sites.google.com/site/fredienoonan/discussions/navigation-to-dakar which illustrates four running fixes plotted by Fred Noonan in 1937 while navigating Earhart's plane across the South Atlantic. I have added error bands to each of his LOPs starting with +/- 7 NM and growing at the rate of 13 knots, 10% of the distance traveled each hour. Noonan advanced his 1341 sunline and his last plotted running fix is at 1800 Z by which time the band of uncertainty in the advanced 1341 Z LOP had increased to +/- 63 NM. gl --- On Thu, 3/21/13, David Fleming <d.l.fleming.1@gmail.com> wrote:
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