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composite sailing. 1204. Rhumb Lines A rhumb line makes the same angle with all meridians it crosses and appears as a straight line on a Mercator chart. The principal advantage of a rhumb line is that it maintains 1. latitude.
comparing the Great Circle and the Rhumb Line tracks between place of departure at 6000N 01000E and different destinations, all of which are located on the 6000N parallel. In this case the Rhumb Line track will be 270°, and the Rhumb Line distance is easy to calculate, using the formula for departure. Observing the Great Circle track and
2401. Rhumb Lines and Great Circles. The principal advantage of a rhumb line is that it maintains constant true direction. A ship following the rhumb line between two places does not change its true course. A rhumb line makes the same angle with all meridians it crosses and appears as a straight line on a Mercator chart.
The formulas for determining a ship’s dead-reckoned position, given an initial known location, the vessel’s course and speed, and the time elapsed, are referred to as the sailing formulas....
New formulas have been derived for both Rhumb Line Sailing (RLS) on the ellipsoid and Great Elliptic Sailing (GES). The RLS formulas result from the analysis of the geometry of the loxodrome on the ellipsoid and are simpler and faster than those traditionally used for RLS on the ellipsoid, which are normally based on the Mercator projection ...
27 sty 2017 · The gist of this essay is a novel concept showing an intrinsic property i.e. orthodrome-loxodrome correlation using a well-known formula.
10.1515/pomr-2017-0045. MIDDLE RULES AND RHUMB-LINE SAILING. Miljenko Petrović. Stonska 1A, 10020 Zagreb, Croatia. ABSTRACT. This work tackles the problem of misconception when using sophisticated mathematical tools, nonlinear optimization in this particular case, to solve a navigational problem.
