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Great circle navigation - sailing calculator software: distance-bearing between two points - formulas - rhumb line - excel spreadsheet program - free download.
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Choose your calculation: Rhumb line calculation: Departure position (latitude, longitude) + Course and Distance, to compute Arrival position; Departure position + Arrival position, to compute Course and Distance; Path of constant course between Departure position and Arrival position. Great Circle calculation
Celestial navigation course for beginners. Voyage planning/passage planning tool. Single rhumb line and great circle calculations on an ellipsoid.
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: To Calculate Departure when the course is not known: dep.= d.long cos(mean lat)
This excel-based app calculates courses, distances, vertex coordinates, ETS, ETA, and waypoints for Great Circle Sailing, Rhumb Line, and Composite Great Circle Sailing. Who the program is for: For officers and masters, sailors and students.
The formulas enable to solve the tasks with a use of electronic calculator and application of traditional methods on plane and sphere, and they also take the Earth’s ellipsoidal shape into consideration. Keywords: loxodrome (rhumb-line sailing), plane (or middle latitude) sailing, Mercator triangle (Mercator sailing) 1. Introduction
Great Circle and Rhumb Line. GREAT CIRCLE SAILING WITH 12 INTERM. POSITIONS. IF 12 IS TOO MUCH THAN USE EVERY SECOND INTERM. POSITION, OR EVEN EVERY THIRD.