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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
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
As known, a vessel sailing on the GCT in a constantly varying course is impossible and thus, a series of rhumb lines is necessary to be adopted for approximating the GCT in practice [2, 3, 9, 18]. Before doing so, the waypoints must be located. However, to determine the waypoints on the GCT, the navigator has to provide some initial conditions.
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.
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.
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.
