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Plane Sailing CH Mate
Plane Sailing CH Mate
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Parallel sailing revision
What do we mean by Parallel sailing?
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Blue
Sine curve
Red
Cosine curve
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Cosine curve
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Parallel Sailing
• Dep = D’long (in minutes) x Cos Lat
D’Long
D’Lat
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• D’lat and D’Long conventions
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MCA
approved
formula
Sheet
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Q – Formulae for Planes sailing?
Mean Departure
Mean Lat
Departure
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Meridians 15
Quadrantal Notation v 360°(T)
Q N030°E
Q N030°W 330° T N 030° T
Q S030°E
Q S030°W
W E
210° T S 150° T
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Polar v Rectangular
Dep R
o o
X
D’Lat Q°
Y
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• You will have to calculate Mean Lat & Dep
• Rectangular to Polar
• Shift Pol [D’Lat , Dep] = Distance
• RCL Y = Course
Shift comma
• Range (Distance) saved in E or X and Angle
(Course) in F or Y
• Polar to Rectangular
• Shift Rec [Distance , Course] = D’Lat
• RCL Y = Dep
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Convert f to j into quadrantal notation
f) 030° (T) N 30° E
g) 136° (T) S 44° E
h) 218° (T) S 38° W
i) 346° (T) N 14° W
j) 279° (T) N 81° W
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Find the Mean Latitude
a) Lat 51° 30’N and Lat 40° 10’N
b) Lat 37° 26’N and Lat 18° 53’N
c) Lat 37° 25’S and Lat 52° 51’S
d) Lat 21° 08’N and Lat 18° 03’S
e) Lat 05° 06’S and Lat 03° 17’N
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c) Lat 37° 25’S
Lat 52° 51’S
90° 16’S
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e) Lat 05° 06’S
Lat 03° 17’N
01° 49’S
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Using plane sailing, find course & distance
between the following positions
A B
a)31° 12’N 030° 56’W 33° 47’N 025° 03’W
b)18° 48’S 089° 12’E 23° 34’S 086° 51’E
c) 29° 29’S 022° 14’W 31° 33’S 016° 43’W
d)44° 38’N 178° 16’E 42° 38’N 177° 40’W
a) b) c) d)
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a) 31° 12’N 64°59’ 030° 56’W
33° 47’N 2 025° 03’W
D’Lat 2° 35’N D’Long 5° 53’E
155’N Mean lat 32°29.5’N 353’E
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