[Rhodes22-list] Nautical Landmark #2

[brad haslett]

Ed,

Not a problem.  Use a piece of string and a globe.

Actually, I used to fly the polar route from Anchorage
to Prestwick, Scotland, twice when the sun spot
activity was so bad the HF radios didn't work. We ran
radio silent from coast out at Point Barrow, AK to
coast in at Scotland.  If anything hiccupped, the
nearest suitable alternate at the equal time point was
Alert, three hours away and is nothing more than light
poles sticking up through the frozen snow. (Alert was
so named because it was an early warning station
looking for Soviet missles coming over the top of the
world) The northern most route goes over the exact
geographic North Pole.  If in fact you hit it dead on,
the Inertial Nav system does a ninety degree turn for
about 30 seconds because it references everything to
true North/South and doesn't know where it is.  One
you've experienced that you learn to go into heading
hold about a minute prior, miss the North Pole by a
half-mile or so, then back to NAV mode.  I don't miss
the 10 hour legs but do miss the catering!

Brad


--- ed kroposki <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:
> Jim:
> 	You must be used to looking thru fog, because that
> was not a good
> picture.  However, it was neat to see it that way.
> At the altitude we were
> at we could see the whole thing for a moment.  It
> was a whole lot better
> than the pack ice I was watching an hour earlier. 
> There was a time when not
> only did I understand the great circle route, but
> could actually do the
> computations by hand with logarithms.  I cannot even
> do it with a calculator
> now. I wonder if Brad can do the calculations
> without a computer?    
> Ed K
> Greenville, SC, USA                                 
>                     
> 	
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
> [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On
> Behalf Of Jim Connolly
> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 11:00 PM
> To: 'The Rhodes 22 mail list'
> Subject: RE: [Rhodes22-list] Nautical Landmark #2
> for Stephen
> 
> Cape Cod Bay looking south.  Provincetown on the
> left, and
> Duxbury/Plymouth/Marshfield on the right.
> 
> Jim Connolly 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
> [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On
> Behalf Of ed kroposki
> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 6:40 AM
> To: 'The Rhodes 22 mail list'
> Subject: RE: [Rhodes22-list] Nautical Landmark #2
> for Stephen
> 
> SS:
> 	Mary Lou of the Chesapeake group jumped on that
> one, now one for you
> or Jim Connolly, see attachment.  Is anyone familiar
> with a source of slip
> on polarizing or haze filter for these new digital
> cameras?
> 
> Ed K
> Greenville, SC, USA
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
> [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On
> Behalf Of Stephen Staum
> Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 3:33 PM
> To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Nautical Landmark
> 
> If I remember correctly from my flying days this is
> Montauk on the end of
> Long Island, NY.  SS
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ed kroposki" <ekroposki at charter.net>
> To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list"
> <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 9:20 AM
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Nautical Landmark
> 
> 
> > Attached is a picture of a nautical landmark from
> about 20,000 feet up.
> > Which Rhodie can identify it?
> >
> >     I have several hundred pictures that I took in
> the Ukraine.  I 
> > need a recommendation of a computer program that I
> can type labels on 
> > them, any suggestions?
> >
> >
> >
> > Ed K
> >
> > Greenville, SC, USA
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
> 
> 
> > Name: Nautical Landmark #1.JPG Type: image/jpeg
> Size: 1883299 bytes Desc: 
> > not available
> > Url: 
> >
>
http://www.rhodes22.org/pipermail/rhodes22-list/attch/200503/30/NauticalLand
> mark1.jpg
> >
> 
> 
>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
> 
> 
> > __________________________________________________
> > Use Rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org, Help?
> www.rhodes22.org/list
> 
> 
> __________________________________________________
> Use Rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org, Help?
> www.rhodes22.org/list
> 
> __________________________________________________
> Use Rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org, Help?
> www.rhodes22.org/list
> 
> 
> __________________________________________________
> Use Rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org, Help?
> www.rhodes22.org/list
> 


		
__________________________________ 
Do you Yahoo!? 
Yahoo! Personals - Better first dates. More second dates. 
http://personals.yahoo.com