06-19-15, 08:09 AM
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Der Einzelgänger
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Originally Posted by Shaefer
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Originally Posted by kevinsue
Therefore using heading, speed and time to calculate your own D.R position after the initial arbitrary position mark, will give you consistently more accurate positional information between you and your target than anything poor old Emil can come up with!  |
Interesting. You lost me a little bit here, how do I go about doing this? Pardon me for being such a noob.  |
Hehe..as per the diagram below, starting at point A, if you travel for 2 hours on a heading of 120° at 4 knots then after an elapsed time of 2 hours, you will be 8 nautical miles from point A at the new position point B in the direction of 120°T from your point of origin. In SH5, you use the Speed Conversion Charts to find out how many meters/Kilometers you will travel when maintaining a speed of X knots for X amount of time. Just use the ruler to measure the calculated distance in the direction of the boats magnetic heading to get point B.
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Last edited by kevinsue; 06-19-15 at 08:22 AM.
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