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Re: Silicon Sea Leg 69: ANSWERS
From: Yves Arrouye
Date: 2001 Apr 09, 18:59 EDT
From: Yves Arrouye
Date: 2001 Apr 09, 18:59 EDT
Dan, For the newcomers here like me, could we get the inner workings of the solution to what may be our first problem? That would really be nice. I did questions 1, 2, and 4, and then when the solution came here, I kind of lost interest :) (It would be great to wait more than 5 days to give a solution; maybe a full week?). Below are some of my questions. > 1. FIX= 9d 50.0'N 53d 00.2'W > > 2. TC= 298.1d > Dist= 424.6 Nmi I tried to apply the mid-latitude sailing formula from 4mulas.txt and got TC = 298 but Dist = 379 Nm. I would appreciate if somebody could see if I made an obvious error, and also explain what method was used (w/ reference) to get to the above numbers if mid-latitude sailing wasn't used (maybe it doesn't make sense to use it?). Thanks, YA
