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Old 10th March 2004 | 15:25
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*Lancer*
 
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It's easy! Just use an IRS

It's impossile to calculate altitude using that information unless it remains the same...

Calculating distance from a point is easy (distance = speed x time), but things get tricky very quickly when you want the answer as a Lat/Long. Actual distance (what you can actually work out) between degrees of longitude will vary with latitude... It's not impossible though!
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