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Navigation-L Survey

a) Dead Reckoning

        What is the method used most?

    Mid-Latitude-----:
    Mercator Sailing-:
    Rhumb Line-------:
    Other(Name?)-----: COURSE DISTANCE


b) Sight Reduction

        Which is your primary Sight reduction method?

    Computer Program(Name?)--------: THE CAP'N
    Calculator(Name?)--------------: HEWLETT PACKARD 48GX  WID APPLIED
PROGRAMMING SYSTEMS
                                                  NAVCOM 48 ROM
    Short Navigation Tables,
        H.O. 211 etc.(Name?)-------:
    Standard Navigation Tables,
        229, 214 etc.(Name?)-------: H. O. PUB. NO. 249
    Other(Name?)-------------------:

c) Plotting

   How do you do your plotting?

    Computer Program(Name?)---: THE CAP'N
    Universal Plotting Sheets-: XXXX
    Manoeuvring Board---------:
    Radar Plotting Sheets-----:
    Home Made(Describe)-------:

d) Navigation Manuals

   Name your main reference manual:

        Bowditch 1995 Ed.------------------:
        Bowditch (pre-1995)----------------: XXXX
        Mixter (Primer of Navigation)------: XXXX, DUTTON'S NAVIGATION &
PILOTING
        Chapman's--------------------------: XXXX
        Celestial Navigation for Yachtsman-:
        Shute----------------------------------:
        Shirk----------------------------------:
        Porter---------------------------------:
        Hemenway-------------------------------:

    Name a manual/book that helped you the most:

        W.F. Buckley @ Airborne/Video----------:
        Le Cours des Glenans-------------------:
        Bowditch-1995--------------------------: XXXXX
        Practical Celestial Navigation(HO 229)-:
        Self-Contained Celestial Navigation----:
        Mariner's Celestial Navigation---------:
        Navigation Afloat----------------------:
        Cruising Under Sail (E. Hiscock)-------:
        Shute----------------------------------:
        Shirk----------------------------------:
        Porter---------------------------------:
        Hemenway-------------------------------:
        Mixter---------------------------------: XXXX



e) Do you use the Nautical Almanac?

        Commercial-----------:
        USNO-----------------: XXXX
        Self-design Software-:
        Computer-------------: (I.C.E)  INTERACTIVE COMPUTER   EPHEMERIS

        USNO Web Site--------:



Henry S.McCoy, Jr.
WH6P
USY KAMA
KaneoheBay Hawaii

   

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