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Short distance sailing is a term which is applied to sailing along a rhumb-line for distances less than 600 nautical miles. From the formulas derived above, the following are used extensively in short distance sailing:
Using two different examples, this video shows how to calculate the course and distance between two positions; and how to calculate the position arrived if d...
The initial rhumb line course equals the orthodromic course at the middle latitude. The rule is mnemonic and straightforward for practical navigation.
20 cze 2024 · In this paper, equations are established to solve problems of Rhumb Line Sailing (RLS) on an oblate spheroid. Solutions are provided for both the inverse problem and the direct problem, thereby providing a complete solution to RLS.
Proposals of algorithms for solving Navigation faculty’s problems regarding navigation along rhumb line (loxodrome), for officer trainees and civil students of Faculty of Navigation and Naval Weapons and for deck seamen on operational level, are presented in this paper.
Dutton's rhumb line calculation is different from mine, and takes into account the earth's eccentricity e = .082483399. The tables used in Mercator sailing, and the java applets available on the web, take this factor into account: instead of they use.
22 lip 2017 · The optimized distance is achieved if the rhumb line course is altered towards the vertex at the orthodrome-loxodrome intersection point. As determination of this point cannot be formulated in a closed form, an iterative solution is to be applied.
