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Re: A Science or an Art
From: Jeremy C
Date: 2010 Dec 20, 06:59 EST
From: Jeremy C
Date: 2010 Dec 20, 06:59 EST
Funny story that.
I was a senior cadet with the Mass Maritime Academy and I was using HO 249
Vol I for my star reductions instead of HO 229. I was done much more
quickly than my classmates. The teachers were not happy, but then again,
there was nothing in the rules against it. The next year cadets were
banned from using HO 249 for reduction, we could only use it for
pre-calculation/star selection.
The reason: The main reason for celnav on seaterm is to practice for
USCG exams, and you have to use HO 229 as HO 249 is not available for the
exam.
Ironically in all of my exams, I used my TI85 calculator and only used HO
229 to make sure I had the formulae correct. :-)
Jeremy
In a message dated 12/15/2010 11:27:02 P.M. Central Asia Standard Ti,
gregrudzinski@yahoo.com writes:
Great YouTube video that makes me want to jump aboard a tramp steamer right now for a celestial navigation vacation. What fun those cadets are having. I did notice that the senior cadet navigator may have forgotten to correct his pub 249 LOP triangle for precession and nutation. So he may have done better than his plotted triangle 3 NM from GPS.
Greg Rudzinski
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