The four bearings method

[makman94]

Originally Posted by karamazovnew

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Now are you sure what you said about the Red Line? As I understood it, using just 3 points will give you an infinite number of possible courses. By projecting the "future" position on all these probable courses (protracting them), you end up with the red line which is basically the Geometric Place (no ideea how to translate Locul Geometric from romanian to english) of all possible locations (not bearings) of your target at your next reading. It's not a bearing, but a bearing+range, if you will. By intersecting that with the actual 4'th bearing, you get the position. Or did I misunderstand the whole concept? So far, I've never had it overlapping the 4'th bearing. It did come close on some tries, but still far enough to allow a good solution.
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yes Kara ,i am sure ! in fact it is... proved ! yes ,'red line' is a geometrical locul and this geometrical locul is (as Kuikueg showed) a straight line. now, your fourth bearing is a straight line also and i am telling you that if you don't change course and speed during your time intervals these two lines will be the SAME line.
i will send you the prove of this at your pms.
if not...then it is a fault at your map drawings or caused becuased of inaccuracies of silent hunter.
send me the mission you played to give it a try and i will tell you my results