target tracks

[Daniel Prates]

Originally Posted by dreadedlyfe

if you have determined the the speed of the target, and you know that speed is distance traveled over time, then you should be able to extend that targets course out and at regular intervals mark where the target should be. you know it traveled 1200 yards in 3 minutes. in the next 3 minutes he should be 1200 yards further down the track. at that speed it will travel 400 yards every minute.

That takes into account not only that the target did no changes in its pattern, but more importanly, that you did no mistake whatsoever in your estimates - and that is a harder thing to do.