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Re: Newbie - Variation Question
From: Brian Whatcott
Date: 2002 Feb 16, 15:26 -0600
From: Brian Whatcott
Date: 2002 Feb 16, 15:26 -0600
>... Andrew Denman had written: > > > ... when > > Easterly variation is applied to true, the resultant magnetic heading will > > be less than true. Is this the case? >At 02:42 PM 2/16/02, Trevor Kenchington responded: >... it is easy to see that if >magnetic north lies to the east of true north, the magnetic bearing MUST >be numerically smaller than the true one (unless it is smaller than the >true bearing plus 360 degrees.... >Trevor Kenchington Hmmm....let's see: Trevor wants us to check that the magnetic bearing (in the range 0 - 359 degrees) is smaller than the true bearing (0-359 deg) plus 360 degrees (i.e 360-719 degrees). If I understand his recipe correctly (probably not!) that means magnetic is always numerically larger than the true. Now that's a novel assertion! :-) Brian Whatcott Altus OK Eureka!
