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Bill wrote

>2. Honoring the "Notices about electronic navigation are acceptable, but
>prolonged discussions should be taken off line" rules of our host, I would
>quickly query as to how many currently practicing cel nav folks are
>replacing a hard copy with a dedicated hand held, a programmable calculator,
>or a program for their computer(s)?

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In practice, Nav-l seems to be rather broader church than Bill implies, so
it would be a pity for the wrong impression to spread.

It's really up to our kind host, Dan, and not to me, to clarify what the
rules are (and I hope he will). He steers us with a very light touch on the
tiller. In several years with this list it seems that it's really stuff
about radionavigation techniques (mostly GPS, of course) that's
discouraged, for good reasons. I don't remember seeing any objection to
discussion of computation and calculators, aboard or ashore, and similarly
to other navigation techniques that rely heavily on electronics, such as
fluxgate compasses and self-steering.

Indeed, we have had several prolonged and satisfying discussions about such
topics, without any objections being raised, by Dan or anyone else. I hope
it will stay that way.

So I hope that Bill, and anyone else, can feel free to discuss the
legitimate topic of whether their celestial positions should be drawn from
an almanac or computed, in some way, on board.

George.

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