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Re: Nav Exercise #3- Azimuth of the Sun
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2008 May 27, 22:14 -0400
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 >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Navigation List archive: www.fer3.com/arc To post, email NavList@fer3.com To , email NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---