Thread: TDC question
View Single Post
Old 06-24-10, 02:31 AM   #11
Pisces
Silent Hunter
 
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: AN9771
Posts: 4,904
Downloads: 304
Uploads: 0
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Threesixtyci View Post
...
Fixed wire is a way to calculate the speed of a given ship by knowing the ship's length and plugging it into a formula.... that involves time. (will need a calculator, for this...). I don't remember the formula.
...
Length (in meters) divided by time (seconds), multiplied by 2, and you get knots as the result. It's a simple and good-enough approximation, but officially you should multiply by 1.944.
__________________
My site downloads: https://ricojansen.nl/downloads
Pisces is offline   Reply With Quote