NavList:

Hello,

My name is Guus Dekker and i am new in this forum. So let me introduce
myself a little bit.
I am Dutch and live in Belgium, tomorrow I become 52 years  young.

My predilection for (Celestial) Navigation start with observing
atlases and  with an Amelia Earhart packet for MS flightsimulator98. I
always prefer the vintage aircrafts. More and more I read and find out
about AE and Fred Noonan, her navigator, and Harold Gatty,  I love it
to know how to calculate ones position without visual landmarks. I
join the Tighar AE forum and I buy books and printed out and studied
lots of Celestial nav. books from the I-net, such as Bowditch, pub.
229 and 249. Sailing directions, Silicon sea questions and answers,
Quartermaster 3 & 2, Jimmy Cornell's World cruising routes, Ocean
Navigator on line, plotting sheets, Thomas Stout's An Ocean nav.
exercise from Bermuda to Azores, vintage air navigation manuals TM
1 ..., World port index, Chart no. 1, E-6B computer ... etc. etc.
So both ways of Celestial Nav. finding your way especially in the
Pacific for aircraft and vessels have my interest.
Maybe you are thinking that I am an armchair navigator ... Well ...
OK,
but on my flightsim boat/aircraft in "real weather" in REAL TIME, I
will find my way to a little speck of land in the middle of the Ocean
with my REAL WORLD sight reduction tables and my "real" simulated
bubble sextant.
When somebody ask me to join a circumnavigation as Cel.Navigator ... I
will say yes ok I am able to do so,(I am also a cook ;-) and  a
prudent navigator never relies on a single source of navigation
information.
So thats why I want to join ...
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