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    Re: Nav Exercise #3- Azimuth of the Sun
    From: Gary LaPook
    Date: 2008 May 27, 22:14 -0400

    Gary LaPook writes:
    
    Jeremy wrote:
    
    "I have never before seen anyone use minutes when correcting the
    compass.  Not that it's wrong, I have just never seen it."
    
    
    
    The Bygrave slide rule works with degrees and minutes, not tenths of degrees.
    
    gl
    
    
    
    
    
    Anabasis wrote:
    
    >By calculator I got the following:
    >
    >Obs 223.0
    >computed 222.5
    >GE  0.5 deg West (compass best, error West)
    >Mag compass error 14.5 deg East
    >Deviation of the magnetic compass 14.7 deg East.
    >
    >I have never before seen anyone use minutes when correcting the
    >compass.  Not that it's wrong, I have just never seen it.
    >
    >Jeremy
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