I do not claim "rescuers" , but it is clear , qualitate qua , and separating details from headlines , that searching along a line is more productive than searching at random , so if on a line and in distress : stay where you are is the word .
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Just scroll up on this topic to van Asten's reply# 105 and you will see that he did "claim rescuers", this is just another example of Mr. van Asten's prevarications. Also scroll up to reply # 118. For those who might have come in late, see my prior post at:
reply # 45 on the
Celestial choir / Re: LOP-Possible stupid question
« on: August 25, 2011, 02:47:31 PM »
https://tighar.org/smf/index.php/topic,440.45.htmlI had been asked my opinion on whether one should read Mr. van Asten's two published papers.
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"Don't waste your time trying to work your way through the gibberish in Mr. van Asten's two published papers.
We have thoroughly discussed Mr. van Asten's theories on the "Navigating the LOP with the offset method" topic, see:
https://tighar.org/smf/index.php/topic,169.120.htmlstarting with reply 120
and subsequent posts, especially reply 203 pointing out his 300 NM error in his computation of this "10 mile" error line and his admission of this error in reply 204.
https://tighar.org/smf/index.php/topic,169.203.htmlWe have also dicussed Mr van Asten's theories on the "Noonan navigation error" thread starting at reply 47 and continuing through reply 80.
https://tighar.org/smf/index.php/topic,383.45.htmlThe short answer, I can't believe he got his articles published because they are so full of errors. He wrote that he had a surface navigator review his papers prior to publication and I told him his problem was that he didn't have the papers reviewed by a flight navigator, the procedures are quite different.
Here are links to better articles.
http://www.oceannavigator.com/content/celestial-airhttp://www.avweb.com/news/avtraining/IFR_bySunAndStars_200781-1.htmlgl