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Old 11th Nov 2015, 13:36
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Bergerie1
 
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megan,
I was thinking a bit more. It would be reasonable, if you got good shots in good conditions, to expect 10Nms as a good ballpark figure. And even in a little turbulence 20Nms should always be possible with a bubble periscopic sextant from a jet transport. My last nav sector using stars was in May 1975.

Perhaps, there are others who can add to this. But I know next to nothing about pre-war astro navigation.
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