On 12/5/2014 7:12 AM, Dave Scobie wrote: Hi Dave, Thanks for the interesting article on celestial navigation. It may be fine for the US Navy to be able to navigate with encrypted satellite signals, but as a small boat sailor who doesn't have access to the equipment that the US Navy uses; have sextant / can (could) navigate. Connie
Discussion here -
http://www.oceannavigator.com/November-December-2013/Teaching-celestial/
Specific about military in later half of the above linked article.
:: Dave Scobie :: M17 #375 SWEET PEA :: Former M15 owner On Dec 5, 2014 6:05 AM, "Howard Audsley" <haudsley@tranquility.net> wrote:
On GPS, I was recently told by someone of authority.......can't remember who.........that the US Navy had gone all in for GPS and was no longer teaching it's navigation officers celestial navigation. If so, I would be shocked. While they may have redundant backup systems on board, none of those would work if some rogue nation figures out a way to disable the GPS birds.
Can anyone confirm or deny this?