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Originally Posted by Jaskor88
I have couple of friends that fly airplanes and they needed to learn navigating via stars and such although they of course use GPS, but you really cant know when those machines might broke. And we saw what happened when people trusted blindly to those bugged Apple maps  |
Jaskor, I assume your joking but if that is not the case than your "friends that
fly airplanes and they needed to learn navigating via stars'' have a long, bumpy, road ahead of them.
In addition to a lot of airplane time in an aircraft with either an astrodome or for newer aircraft such as the C-130 turbos with a periscope sextant hole for practice with a
bubble sextant, they are going to need a lot of specialized training, and a raft of different books than are required for marine navigation. Instructors and check airmen in this lost art are almost impossible to find nowadays.
Though many of the basic principles are common to marine navigation, it is a very different breed of cat and a rapidly disappearing art.
I wish them good luck; I know, I've done both types "real world".