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Forum: Navigation

14-10-2012, 10:48

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Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

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Posted By rebel heart

Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

Well, take Mexico as an example with it's notoriously incorrect charts. Off in longitude from two feet to two miles in either way. If you want to do something like three lines of positioning based...

Forum: Navigation

13-10-2012, 20:23

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Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

Views: 97,932

Posted By rebel heart

Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

The chart plotter is not the problem. The "hey look I have a chart plotter I don't need to know a single other god damn thing about navigation!" is the problem.

Forum: Navigation

13-10-2012, 13:20

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Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

Views: 97,932

Posted By rebel heart

Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

Guys, just go walk up and down the docks. Ask the people with chart plotters if they know how to calculate set and drift, and ask them to do it for you. Ask them the difference between variance and...

Forum: Navigation

12-10-2012, 20:47

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Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

Views: 97,932

Posted By rebel heart

Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

The FAA is only enforcing domestic flights, right? They can't seriously be saying that you don't need real charts for flying anywhere on the globe, and can they even enforce that anyway?

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