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Homing verses Tracking
I got interested in the effects of homing on a waypoint as opposed to
tracking. I have seen the illustrations and have understood the concept for some time, but I have never seen any numbers. If you are interested here is the results of my playing around with Excel: http://www.cockpitgps.com/other_arti...rack_error.htm John Bell www.cockpitgps.com www.smallboatgps.com |
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Maybe the recent spate of posts about cross-posting has made me sensitive,
but since homing/tracking is an IFR exercise, why post anywhere other than rec.aviation.ifr? Bob Gardner "John Bell" wrote in message ... I got interested in the effects of homing on a waypoint as opposed to tracking. I have seen the illustrations and have understood the concept for some time, but I have never seen any numbers. If you are interested here is the results of my playing around with Excel: http://www.cockpitgps.com/other_arti...rack_error.htm John Bell www.cockpitgps.com www.smallboatgps.com |
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"Bob Gardner" wrote in message ... Maybe the recent spate of posts about cross-posting has made me sensitive, but since homing/tracking is an IFR exercise, why post anywhere other than rec.aviation.ifr? Homing/tracking is a navigational exercise, navigation is not limited to IFR operations. |
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"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message ink.net... "Bob Gardner" wrote in message ... Maybe the recent spate of posts about cross-posting has made me sensitive, but since homing/tracking is an IFR exercise, why post anywhere other than rec.aviation.ifr? Homing/tracking is a navigational exercise, navigation is not limited to IFR operations. Oh Geez! I'm trapped into agreeing with Mr. McNicoll on an issue. Tracking is just as important in VFR as IMC. It saves gas, and time between waypoints. |
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"Casey Wilson" wrote in message
news:qGI3d.3087$C8.2963@trnddc05... Oh Geez! I'm trapped into agreeing with Mr. McNicoll on an issue. Tracking is just as important in VFR as IMC. It saves gas, and time between waypoints. That still begs the question as to why you posted to r.a.student and sci.geo.satellite-nav. I agree with Bob...you "over-cross-posted". Remember, when it comes to posting on Usenet, less is more. |
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On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:48:14 -0700, "Bob Gardner"
wrote: Maybe the recent spate of posts about cross-posting has made me sensitive, but since homing/tracking is an IFR exercise, why post anywhere other than rec.aviation.ifr? Obviously a single newsgroup does not provide sufficient scope for adequate adulation of certain types of genius. Bob Gardner "John Bell" wrote in message m... I got interested in the effects of homing on a waypoint as opposed to tracking. I have seen the illustrations and have understood the concept for some time, but I have never seen any numbers. If you are interested here is the results of my playing around with Excel: http://www.cockpitgps.com/other_arti...rack_error.htm John Bell www.cockpitgps.com www.smallboatgps.com |
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Maybe the recent spate of posts about cross-posting has made me
sensitive, but since homing/tracking is an IFR exercise, why post anywhere other than rec.aviation.ifr? Obviously a single newsgroup does not provide sufficient scope for adequate adulation of certain types of genius. snip pleeaaassse!!!!!! I for one use navaids flying VFR and the homing/tracking is at worst interesting and at best very useful. Further, I don't subscribe to the IFR newsgroup or the satellite nav news group, but I do to RAS and RAP so I got the info if I choose to follow it up. I guess there's people using GPS that aren't aviators so I can see why John posted to the GPS NG so what's the problem? Further, for no cost (donationware actually) John has produced a couple of damned fine e-books on the use of GPS in the air (and small boats). I think this sort of effort (whether you like the content or not), and the obvious interest and enthusiasm he displays, shows a committment far and above most that subscribe to any of the RA... newsgroups. We should be encouraging people like John (and others like Gene Whitt for example) at every opportunity not sniping with snide comments. And no, I didn't cross-post Just my $0.02c worth.... Kevin |
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Slightly off this thread topic, but what formula do you use to calc the XTE?
I've used a variation of Ed Williams' formula "XTD =asin(sin(dist_AD)*sin(crs_AD-crs_AB))" but if I run my calcs in parallel with a GPS they are consistently different with the GPS numbers varying considerably more than mine. "John Bell" wrote in message ... I got interested in the effects of homing on a waypoint as opposed to tracking. I have seen the illustrations and have understood the concept for some time, but I have never seen any numbers. If you are interested here is the results of my playing around with Excel: http://www.cockpitgps.com/other_arti...rack_error.htm John Bell www.cockpitgps.com www.smallboatgps.com |
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but since homing/tracking is an IFR exercise, why post anywhere other than rec.aviation.ifr? Bob Gardner Bob, I have read the some of the complaints about cross posting and debated whether or not to do it. However, I decided that it was appropriate. In fact, I am not sure that I didn't leave some appropriate groups out in my cross posting. Homing can happen if you steer towards a point without properly correcting for a cross current, as I am sure you understand. Where I will disagree with you is that it is exclusively an IFR exercise (Instrument Flying Regulations for the non-aviation cross-posting of my response). While trying to use an ADF (Automatic Direction Finder) is one of the more common examples, there are many other cases. One case is steering to a point visually whether flying or boating. This can also happen when steering a heading as indicated by a GPS bearing, whether in an airplane or boat. Thus the case of homing verses tracking is not limited to IFR flying at all. Anyway, I had never seen any numbers as to just how much one can get off course with homing, so I spent a little time with Excel for my own curiosity and thought that I would post it to my site ( http://www.cockpitgps.com/other_arti...rack_error.htm ) and share it on the newsgroups where I thought people might find it interesting and relevant to the nature of the newsgroup. John Bell www.cockpitgps.com |
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Slightly off this thread topic, but what formula do you use to calc the XTE? I've used a variation of Ed Williams' formula "XTD =asin(sin(dist_AD)*sin(crs_AD-crs_AB))" but if I run my calcs in parallel with a GPS they are consistently different with the GPS numbers varying considerably more than mine. For anybody on the cross post response list, this refers to Ed William's Aviation Formulary page. There are some things directly related such as airspeed and altimetry issues. However, there are also some useful general navigation formulas with more general applicability: http://williams.best.vwh.net/avform.htm Ron, The way that I did the spreadsheet, I never had to use this formula. Without checking, here is a guess: I think crs_AB would refer to the GPS value of course and crs_AD would refer to the GPS value of BRG. If you go to the very top of the text, Ed talks about using radians to measure distance: Great circle distance can be likewise be expressed in radians by defining the distance to be the angle subtended by the arc at the center of the earth. Since by definition, one nautical mile subtends one minute (=1/60 degree) of arc, we have: distance_radians=(pi/(180*60))*distance_nm distance_nm=((180*60)/pi)*distance_radians Note: the nautical mile is currently defined to be 1852 meters - which to be consistent with its historical definition implies the earth's radius to be 1.852 * (180*60/pi) = 6366.71 km, which indeed lies between the currently accepted ( WGS84) equatorial and polar radii of 6378.137 and 6356.752 km, respectively. Other choices of the earth's radius in this range are consistent with the spherical approximation and may for some specialized purposes be preferred. Since 1 radian = 180/pi degrees, you can use distance_degrees= distance_nm/60. I keep some of Ed's formulas on my Palm PDA. For more info: http://www.cockpitgps.com/palm/index.htm John |
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