The man/woman in the previous post is, of course, a lateral thinker .... and probably has a glorious career in business ahead of him/her.
Most of us would not have considered the quick solution of ploughing half the field ..... ?
The three different answers tale brings back a chuckle .. many years ago ... freighter at 0-dark-thirty in the morning ... out over a body of water .... ATC pops up with "can you give us a wind ?".
Not having any fancy gear on this bird .... the three of us ferreted about in our nav bags to see if any one of us had a prayer wheel ... three turned up as a matter of interest .... three heads were scratched as techniques buried in memories clawed their way to the surface.
The upshot was that we came up with three totally different answers ....while my answer was correct, of course, I declined to impose my will upon my colleagues ... so we averaged them .. and reported the W/V back to ATC as L&V .... whereupon we all promptly went back to sleep ....
(.... I may have embellished the tale ever so slightly for the purpose of the post .........)
Last edited by john_tullamarine; 27th November 2002 at 23:36.