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Re: Nories tables vs H.O. table's
From: Nigel Gardner
Date: 2002 Jan 26, 3:10 AM
From: Nigel Gardner
Date: 2002 Jan 26, 3:10 AM
When I worked for the Queen more years ago than I care to remember we were issued with AP 3270's (the same as HO 249). The three volumes weighed about 10lb, were bulky and were issued to us and not the aeroplane. By the time you had those, a sextant, an almanac, bunch of charts and various other pubs to carry around (not to mention a parachute) things got a bit overladen. To cut a long boring story short I left the AP3270's in my locker and managed to get round a fair bit of the world using Hughes tables which weighed just over a pound. Rearding accuracy, the tables themselves were readable to a tenth of a minute but as an air sextant could only be interpolated to the nearest half minute that was a bit academic, although more reliably accurate than AP's Nigle Gardner
