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Re: Mercator vs. Great Circle Charts
From: Richard B. Emerson
Date: 2001 Aug 29, 11:30 AM
From: Richard B. Emerson
Date: 2001 Aug 29, 11:30 AM
No wonder I've been having lane skip problems! [g] Rick S/V One With The Wind, Baba 35 Richard Langley writes: > On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Richard B. Emerson wrote: > > >Still in use??? I don't think so or you weren't seeing SATNAV. The > >Transit satellites have been shut down. I've lost track of the URL > >but I think NavCen had some pieces about pulling the plug on the > >satellites. Anyway, the point is the satellites are silent. Maybe > >you were seeing Omega or some other system? > > Omega is gone too! > > -- Richard Langley > > >After the QE2 taking the bottom on a rock off Nantucket and a couple > >of similar groundings from blindly following the data on a nav > >console, any captain who doesn't wear suspenders, a belt, and a > >skyhook to keep his or her navigational pants up is asking for > >problems. Your observation suggests at least one captain so > >equipped. [s] > > > >Rick > >S/V One With The Wind, Baba 35 > > > >Young, Derrick writes: > > > Rick, > > > > > > I understand your comment about SATNAV - but I was on a cruise ship recently > > > and they still had the equipment and it was still in use. Like many > > > mariners - we seem to keep the old stuff "just in case." I still found > > > folks onboard that thought it was funny that the quartermaster was taking > > > dawn/noon and dusk shots with a sextant and then working out the position > > > (by hand!) to confirm what the position that the GPS and LORAN-C were > > > reporting. > > > > > > It felt good (to me) to see their accuracy was a bit better than mine (lots > > > more practice!). > > > > > > derrick > > > > > =============================================================================== > Richard B. Langley E-mail: lang@unb.ca > Geodetic Research Laboratory Web: http://www.unb.ca/GGE/ > Dept. of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering Phone: +1 506 453-5142 > University of New Brunswick Fax: +1 506 453-4943 > Fredericton, N.B., Canada E3B 5A3 > Fredericton? Where's that? See: http://www.city.fredericton.nb.ca/ > ===============================================================================
