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jblacic · 02-21-08, 07:12 PM

I don't think what I'm suggesting would be all that useful of an addition in the SH3/4 context. What you have is already quite good for that. What I was thinking of is a separate product aimed at real navigation use. It is quite common, especially iwith today's GPS technology , to ask TSD questions while planning or voyaging. For example, what is the distance, course and ETA to a target lat/lon position from my current lat/lon position as determined by GPS or sextant sight reduction, assuming a specific speed? It would seem that your DRT has most of the capability to address nav questions like this, except for the position information. I'm aware of an old DOS program to do these calculations but it is very clunky and hard to use with our current operating systems (see http://www.offsoundings.info/navfiles/nautical.zip). Any chance of implementing such a useful program based on MoBo?

02-21-08, 07:12 PM	#15
jblacic Nub Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 3 Downloads: 55 Uploads: 0	For a separate purpose I don't think what I'm suggesting would be all that useful of an addition in the SH3/4 context. What you have is already quite good for that. What I was thinking of is a separate product aimed at real navigation use. It is quite common, especially iwith today's GPS technology , to ask TSD questions while planning or voyaging. For example, what is the distance, course and ETA to a target lat/lon position from my current lat/lon position as determined by GPS or sextant sight reduction, assuming a specific speed? It would seem that your DRT has most of the capability to address nav questions like this, except for the position information. I'm aware of an old DOS program to do these calculations but it is very clunky and hard to use with our current operating systems (see http://www.offsoundings.info/navfiles/nautical.zip). Any chance of implementing such a useful program based on MoBo?