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Re: Value of On-line Nav calculations
From: Chuck Taylor
Date: 2002 Mar 20, 09:05 US/PACIFIC
From: Chuck Taylor
Date: 2002 Mar 20, 09:05 US/PACIFIC
> Of what use are on-line navigation calculators for if you are at sea and > wish to do 'real' navigation? Thy are great for practice, i suppose, but not > may of us have i-net connections while at sea. Many such web pages are self-contained, with the calculations done in Javascript. What that means is that you can save the web page as a local file on disk (perhaps on a laptop), then run it later without connecting to the internet. The Great Circle calculator I referred to earlier on the NIMA website is like that. Chuck Taylor Everett, WA, USA
