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    Sailings WAS: TRANS ATLANTIC
    From: Peter Hakel
    Date: 2012 Oct 24, 17:22 -0700
    Indeed.  Here are a couple of relevant links:

    http://www.navigation-spreadsheets.com/navigation_triangles.html#waypoints
    http://blog.navigation-spreadsheets.com/2011/01/15/sailings.aspx

    My original source on this topic was Bowditch.


    Peter Hakel



    From: Andres Ruiz <navigationalalgorithms@gmail.com>
    To: NavList@fer3.com
    Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 9:45 AM
    Subject: [NavList] Re: TRANS ATLANTIC

    No problem, usually a GC route is divided in a number of rhumb line tracks, and used to steer.


    2012/10/24 Brad Morris <bradley.r.morris@gmail.com>
    The deviation between a true, constantly curved great circle course and a straight line approximation will be far less than your measurement uncertainty, especially for a running fix whose total duration is less than one hour.
    In other words, I would not worry about it and just assume a straight line course, instead of a curved course.

    --
    Andrés Ruiz
    Navigational Algorithms
    http://sites.google.com/site/navigationalalgorithms/


       
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