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Old 26th January 2021 | 19:34
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Cough
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North Atlantic Waypoints

So, t'other day we headed across the pond at 57N. Every waypoint was at 57N, so each waypoint in the confuzer differed by 1 number, and I thought this is why it's too easy to get a GNE.

So then I started to think (steady Cough!) why don't we use named waypoints over the Atlantic? I mean it's a long time since anyone had a navigator that did star shots and the Lat/Long needed to mean something... And named waypoints are quite common in the South Atlantic... So why persist with Lat/Long in the North Atlantic when they lead to so many GNE's?

(Promise to stop thinking pronto. Lockdown can't cope with thought...)
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