Who changed the definition to include landmarks?

jeffies.

Subject: Fog, DR and traffic lights.
From: (JAXAshby)
Date: 07/18/2004 12:06 Pacific Standard Time
Message-id:

Who changed the definition to include landmarks?

jeffies.


No he didn't, you did.
Typically, with your poor reading comprehension and lack of abilities where
navigation is concerned, you took a statement you didn't understand and tried
to turn it to your advantage.
Jeff said nothing about pilotage ... you did; Jeff said nothing about using
landmarks .... you did.
Jeff's comment was that when you start someplace, you know where you are (he
can correct me if I'm wrong) .... you could not understand this and
manufactured the rest.

Shen

That's right - starting with a Fix is pretty fundamental for DR navigation. One
could also say that the compass represents another reference, but that would be
too complex for jaxie.



"Shen44" wrote in message
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Subject: Fog, DR and traffic lights.
From: (JAXAshby)
Date: 07/18/2004 12:06 Pacific Standard Time
Message-id:

Who changed the definition to include landmarks?

jeffies.


No he didn't, you did.
Typically, with your poor reading comprehension and lack of abilities where
navigation is concerned, you took a statement you didn't understand and tried
to turn it to your advantage.
Jeff said nothing about pilotage ... you did; Jeff said nothing about using
landmarks .... you did.
Jeff's comment was that when you start someplace, you know where you are (he
can correct me if I'm wrong) .... you could not understand this and
manufactured the rest.

Shen

One
could also say that the compass represents another reference

no, one can not. one can ONLY state which direction magnetic North is and
which direction relative to that the boat is pointed, but *no* deduction can be
made as to which direction actually is actually going. none.



but that would be
too complex for jaxie.

wasn't too complex for Einstein when he wrote his PhD thesis on the subject.
you can read that thesis, if you want, by looking up The Special Theory of
Relativity.

absolutely not. DR has no reference points in it, and I have never stated that
it does.

Subject: Fog, DR and traffic lights.
From: (JAXAshby)
Date: 07/18/2004 12:06 Pacific Standard Time
Message-id:

Who changed the definition to include landmarks?

jeffies.


No he didn't, you did.
Typically, with your poor reading comprehension and lack of abilities where
navigation is concerned, you took a statement you didn't understand and tried
to turn it to your advantage.
Jeff said nothing about pilotage ... you did; Jeff said nothing about using
landmarks .... you did.
Jeff's comment was that when you start someplace, you know where you are (he
can correct me if I'm wrong) .... you could not understand this and
manufactured the rest.

Shen

Wrong jaxie. Every DR plot starts with a reference point. You're just showing
you have no idea what you're talking about.



"JAXAshby" wrote in message
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absolutely not. DR has no reference points in it, and I have never stated
that
it does.

Subject: Fog, DR and traffic lights.
From: (JAXAshby)
Date: 07/18/2004 12:06 Pacific Standard Time
Message-id:

Who changed the definition to include landmarks?

jeffies.


No he didn't, you did.
Typically, with your poor reading comprehension and lack of abilities where
navigation is concerned, you took a statement you didn't understand and tried
to turn it to your advantage.
Jeff said nothing about pilotage ... you did; Jeff said nothing about using
landmarks .... you did.
Jeff's comment was that when you start someplace, you know where you are (he
can correct me if I'm wrong) .... you could not understand this and
manufactured the rest.

Shen

JAXAshby wrote:
absolutely not. DR has no reference points in it, and I have never stated that
it does.

In that case, you best look up "reference point". The starting point of
a DR plot is generally at a known reference point and it can easily be
said that the ending point of your DR is also a reference point.

LOL Why is it, every time I open a Jax post now, my computer starts
playing the music from "Twilight Zone"?

otn

(JAXAshby) wrote in message ...


snip the serious backpeddeling

So what your saying Jax, is you are as dumb as 1/4 of the 18th centry sailors.
The ones that had no skill and sunk ships.

And you can not do a simple basic DR plot factoring in set and drift.

I hear you.....

Joe

And you can not do a simple basic DR plot factoring in set and drift.

no physicist on the planet would say you can, and do so accurately enough to
miss the rocks that might be nearby.

of course, if there are no rocks within 500 miles, have at it. you won't know
where you are for sure, but sooner or later the clouds will lift and you can
figure it out.

why do you guy keep insisting that *you* can do the physically impossible?

Do you not understand what you are saying?

it is either that, or you are being purposely dense.