Great circle sailing by computation usually involves solving for the initial great circle course, the distance, latitude/longitude (and sometimes the distance) ...

Great circle sailing is used for long ocean passages as it follows the shortest distance between two points on the earth's surface along the arc of the ...

Long. can also be found by the formula: sin(co A) = cosPV cos(coP). cos A = cosPV sinP

... great circle distance is 2,485 nautical miles while the rhumb-line is ... Great Circle Distance (nm) = (90° - Hc) x 60. Zn = Initial course to steer. Example.

Great circle sailing involves the solution of courses, distances, and points along a great circle between two points. 7. Composite sailing is a modification of ...

At page 54 of the present work on the Development of Great Circle. Sailing, the equations stated for finding the great circle course are: tan (p = cos A cot ...

General calculation of great circle directions and distances are today made using hand held electronic calculators, or navigation calculators built into ...

In this paper, a novel approach using a Great Circle Equation (GCE) formulated by vector algebra is proposed to solve the problems of Great Circle Sailings ...

As the great circle track line is plotted on the gnomonic chart, the vertex and the chosen intermediate positions can be read off directly from the chart.