I have such a compass for about 20 years. It is a great and very handy
compass and very accurate.
But be careful! If you are wearing glasses that are fitted in a metal frame
you can get a misreading of up to 5 degrees because the compass is very
close to the frame depending on the kind and amount
Boys (AND girls!)
My new toy arrived, that is Mini Avio 2000 Compass that I could not help
but order on the night I was replying to compass related postings. It is
absolutely lovely and very easy to use. It is marine compass filled with
liquid and they do not mention anything about its resistance
>I'm interested in origin of the term "dead reckoning". I read somewhere
>that it came from "ded' reckoning" i.e. "deduced reckoning".
>
>Any thoughts?
>
I have no idea. My guess it was named after people like me who when trying
to use it as a method of navigation end up dead:-)
Mike Koblic,
Michael Koblic wrote:
> One believed that the Magellan GPS was the best thing since sliced bread,
the other preferred to rely on compass and dead reckoning.
I'm interested in origin of the term "dead reckoning". I read somewhere
that it came from "ded' reckoning" i.e. "deduced reckoning".
An
What make is your bubble sextant? I have a Mark IXA from Henry Hughes and
Son Ltd. Digging in the library of the (airline)company I work for I found
a rather extensive description. In it is also explained how to create the
bubble if there is none: it is manipulating the Diaphragm chamber with the
John Pickard wrote:
> of GPSs, and most of us guides had them as well. I suppose that
> sextants are not even taught in naval academys anymore.
I once saw a sextant in short visit I did to Marble Head a few miles
northeast of
Boston, USA. I loved it but I decided I wouldn't pay US$ 700.00. It wa
>These days, GPS are so cheap that it is not even worth buying the
>plastic Davis sextants. Ain't technology wonderful! In the five
>antarctic cruises I did in the last few years as a tourist guide, I
>didn't see a single sextant on the Russian icebreakers. Just a bank
>of GPSs, and most of u
Slawek,
I just LVE catalogues (note the CORRECT spelling, none of this US
pretend spelling!) There is only one thing better than reading some
wonderful book like Holtzapffel, or Bion, and that is a good
catalogue, paper or electronic. Paper is probably better, because I
can read them in b
