Re: [Aus-soaring] Sextant: was bohli compass for sale

2013-09-26 Thread Grietje Wansink
I do believe that. A very good friend of my father still uses his when they go sailing! On 26/09/13 11:22 AM, Anthony Smith wrote: > Believe it or not, in the late 90's I had a sextant in a case under my desk. > It was standard issue for a certain large maritime patrol aircraft. We were > in the

[Aus-soaring] Sextant: was bohli compass for sale

2013-09-26 Thread Anthony Smith
Believe it or not, in the late 90's I had a sextant in a case under my desk. It was standard issue for a certain large maritime patrol aircraft. We were in the process of upgrading the aircraft to include GPS. I needed the sextant to as a reference to calculate the change in weight and balance.