Hello Kuikueg.
Firstly, congratulations for your work.
I have had to fight some time to understand the new method. I had big problems with the final step in section 4 (the four bearing), when you explain that we have to repeat what we have learned in section 2 for computing the actual course of the target.
At first I thought my head was hard and so I did not understand this step, but after reading the section 5, I realized that something was wrong (apart from the fact that my head is very hard).
In the last drawing of section 4 you say that the actual course of the target is the green line, and the only green line in the picture is one side of Triangle AEI, that is, the side A-I.
I spent an hour trying to understand how I could reach the result of that the actual course was the A-I line by using the method described in Section 2.
Now I believe have understood that the drawing does not agree with the explanation; that the actual course of the target is the P-R line, the point V is the "arbitrary point", the line is drawn between point P and V, the point C is the mirror of P, h is the line parallel to b3, and so we get the point R.
I think the confusion lies in two places. First in where the text says that the actual course of the target is the green line, and second, because in this drawing all the lines and procedures are posed in reverse order to those in section 2 (wherein there you use the lines b1 and b2, here you use lines b4 and b3) and this adds a bit of confusion.
If this is so, I believe that, in addition to fix the text where you say that the actual course of target is the green line (really, it's the black P-R), it can be much clearer if you explain that V is now the arbitrary point and C is the mirror of P through V.
If this is not so and I'm wrong, please excuse me. I have to study more.
Please, excuse any blunder due to my poor English / Mathematics.
Best regards.
Last edited by toniloCoyote; 02-01-11 at 01:43 PM.
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