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Old 7th September 2001 | 03:41
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Tim Zukas
 
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If you want the details:

Pretend for a moment that the earth is a sphere. Along any great-circle track, the sine of the course (azimuth) times the cosine of the latitude remains constant. So if you start from latitude 45 deg N on a course of 45 deg true the constant is 0.5-- so your course will become 90 degrees at latitude 60.

If we assume the earth is a spheroid, then substitute "reduced latitude" for "latitude" in the above (and "geodesic" for "great-circle").
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