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Flying Pig Float Plan
Jere Lull wrote:
On 2008-10-04 16:13:03 -0400, Marty said: wrote: Now that I look at what happened, and where he is now, I have concluded that the backtracking represents Lydia's watch! Looking at his present course and position, he would seem to trying to pass just west of buoy "QR", some 12 mi. or so ESE of Cape Hatteras, he's about 12 mi. NNE of that. The NOAA weather buoy at Diamond Shoals shows wind at 6kts from the north, so I suspect he's getting some assistance from the iron jenny. The one thing I can't do is figure out how far they've moved -- too lazy to do the math. Anyone know an easy way to estimate distances within SPOT? When he's going pretty much due south, just look at the latitude numbers for two coordinates an hour apart, they're in decimal degrees and you can figure a tenth of degree is about 6 miles, close enough for government work. Cheers Marty |
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