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Old February 27th 05, 01:10 AM
Ron Rosenfeld
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On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 19:27:47 GMT, "Colin W Kingsbury"
wrote:

there is no way for me to navigate from my
present position to FUBAR in a straight line sans RNAV


The old (pre 1996) USAF manual AFM 51-37 had a technique which could be
used to do that. And USAF pilots were trained in that technique. However,
I am told the current manual no longer discusses this method, it having
been replaced with INS, RNAV, GPS, etc.


Ron (EPM) (N5843Q, Mooney M20E) (CP, ASEL, ASES, IA)