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Re: Looking for references on "aiming off"
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2010 Sep 10, 13:42 -0700
Air Force Manual 51-40, 1973 page 16-7 says to aim off 10% of the distance flown since the last fix but not less than 60 NM.
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On 9/10/2010 10:07 AM, Gary LaPook wrote:
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2010 Sep 10, 13:42 -0700
Air Force Manual 51-40, 1973 page 16-7 says to aim off 10% of the distance flown since the last fix but not less than 60 NM.
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gl
On 9/10/2010 10:07 AM, Gary LaPook wrote:
"Aim off" is also known as "single line of position landfall procedure" or simply "landfall procedure."
gl
On 9/10/2010 6:20 AM, mjans wrote:
I'm a PhD student and am working on a paper quantifying when and by how much to aim off. Can anyone point me to any references on the subject? For instance from [NavList 10886]:
"Noonan could be expected to have known this technique since he knew Weems and Chichester had popularized in 1931."
How did they do that?
Has anyone heard of off-aiming in maritime navigation, perhaps under a different name?
Thank you very much.
Tom Temple,
Ph.D Candidate,
Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
At the moment, my results are still preliminary but I would be happy to share them with anyone who is interested.
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