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Proposal on the Modification of Sailing Calculations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2009

T. Hiraiwa
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(Hokkaido University)
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Methods of calculating the course and the distance between two points from a knowledge of their latitudes and longitudes, or calculating the latitude and the longitude of the arrival point from the course and the distance from a known departure point, are called sailings. Middle-latitude sailing and Mercator sailing have been widely used.

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1987

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