Originally Posted by ATCast
Wow, you've lost me now. Last time I checked, the cosine of a very small angle was almost 1, but they might have changed that in the mean time
It was changed very briefly between 0700 and 0800 UTC this morning, but it is now changed back, so I corrected my note to reflect that
Originally Posted by ATCast
....I have no idea how you come up with 0.000873
That is the factor for 6,000 ft = 1 nm of altitude, since I was expressing radius in nm. I forgot to edit it out.
Originally Posted by ATCast
Maybe you need to finish your morning coffee before posting...
Yes, well, that is an astonishingly accurate statement (I didn't know we had a hidden webcam in the house). I will certainly keep it very much in mind for the future.
Originally Posted by ATCast
That difference is really too small for me to worry about.
Use is in the eye of the beholder, in this case ft. I wonder what he has in mind?
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