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Re: Newbie - Variation Question
From: Brian Whatcott
Date: 2002 Feb 12, 06:54 -0600
From: Brian Whatcott
Date: 2002 Feb 12, 06:54 -0600
At 10:35 PM 2/11/02, you wrote: >Brian, > >so regardless of what convention is used (ie Easterly variation + or -) when >Easterly variation is applied to true, the resultant magnetic heading will >be less than true. Is this the case? It's the "less than" proviso that can be troublesome. Take the example of variation 15 degrees East for example - towards the West (US) coast: where true is 5 deg, mag would be 350 deg. Brian Whatcott Altus OK Eureka!
