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Re: Real celnav in the 60's - Excercise 1
From: R B Emerson
Date: 2008 Aug 11, 22:27 -0400

123-46 East - not West. This is a simple four star fix with no great surprises. Although plotting the LOP's does show an interesting redundancy. Discovering that is left as an exercise for the student. ;-)

Rick Emerson
S/V One With The Wind

Andrew Corl wrote:

Everyone,

I am not an expert in this sort of thing so I am looking forward to this problem and trying to figure it all out. So no spoilers please.

The following is stated in the problem:

"N27deg 21' W123deg 46' (Japan Sea)"

I read this as the DR position however the parenthetical statement "Japan Sea" led me to believe that this position was somewhere in the Japan Sea. I Google Earthed the position and it is actually in the Pacific off the coast of Baja Mexico. Am I simply reading the statement wrong and the destination is the Japan Sea? Please clairfy.

The novice navigator

Andrew

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