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Real navigation: Lat & Long
By: skipper7 Date: August 4, 2018, 1:03 am
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Hi, for no particular reason I’ve been reading up on this topic
and had a question
If on the water you were giving your position would you provide:
Degrees, minutes, seconds
Or
Degrees & decimal minutes
Or
Decimal degrees
Is there a convention in say an emergency ?
Thanks in advance. Em
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Re: Real navigation: Lat & Long
By: RobH Date: August 5, 2018, 4:06 pm
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It’s degrees and decimal minutes. So in giving your position in
a Mayday or Pan Pan message you might say:
Five zero degrees, three two decimal three minutes north
Three degrees, two five decimal four minutes west
Hope you never have to send one!
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Re: Real navigation: Lat & Long
By: skipper7 Date: August 6, 2018, 4:45 am
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[quote author=RobH link=topic=385.msg1085#msg1085
date=1533503210]
It’s degrees and decimal minutes. So in giving your position in
a Mayday or Pan Pan message you might say:
Five zero degrees, three two decimal three minutes north
Three degrees, two five decimal four minutes west
Hope you never have to send one!
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Me to - many thanks Rob [emoji120]
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