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Dead Reconing
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- 1Oldest Navigation?Pilotage or contact flying from one landmark to another
- 2Bharat Kumar’s Definition of dead reconing?By means of compass and calculations based upon speed, time, wind effects and direction from known position.
- 3Airmail course correction primary methodIf uncertain, land and ask for directions
- 4Primary reasons to teach dead reconing?It’s on the test
- 5There’s much disagreement and debate over origins of dead reckoning name but what is the one thing all agree upon?It began as a nautical term
- 6Origin of the term theory number oneShort for deduced and has nothing to do with death. This is unlikely because deduced first appears in print in the 1930s
- 7Origin of the term theory number TwoMisspelling Ded for dead in ship’s log
- 8Origin of the term theory number ThreeJettisoned object thrown for drift correction is said to be “dead in the water”. It could be correct.
- 9Origin of the term theory number FourAnother way of saying done in the blind or opposite of stellar, lunar or solar. It could be correct.
- 10Origin of the term theory number FiveDead appeared clear back in 1613 in ships logs, therefore it’s impossible that it’s short for deduced. But ded did appear in logs in 1700s
- 11As a noun dead means dead but as a modifier?Absolutely
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