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Re: Fix from 2 Bearings
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2003 Jul 11, 10:06 -0700
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2003 Jul 11, 10:06 -0700
On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 08:30 AM, Smith_Peter@EMC.COM wrote: > I assume that we are to apply the correction for deviation ourselves... Yes. > My FIX was at 48d 32.3'N 122d 44.0'W Very good! I do not actually know my exact position at the time of the fix, but it is within a minute of lat/lon of what you have determined. > I used a spreadsheet I wrote that solves a two-LOP fix using rhumb > lines determined by mid-latitude. Is this available? Could you share the details of how you solve this? Dan