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8th Nov 2007, 13:19

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Pontius Navigator

I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could

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Originally Posted by Widger

Know where they are going........yes but......only if they rotate the A-Z in the direction they are travelling!

Widger it was the pilots who rotated the maps. Real navigators could navigate up, down, left, right and around coffee cups. We could also use different coloured pens, write a record of what happened so that it was available at the debrief and not when the analyists got in to read the tapes.

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