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Concerning Cross Track Distance at Mid-Longitude (1)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 January 2005

John Ponsonby
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Abstract

I was amused by the Cross Track Distance at Mid-Longitude problem posed by Paul Hickley in The Journal of Navigation57, 320. Thinking about it, I came up with a solution. My method gives an astonishingly accurate, though approximate, answer which is found without any appeal to any formula of spherical trigonometry.

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2005 The Royal Institute of Navigation

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