Thursday, October 19, 2017

ASA Douglas Style Plotter



The ASA Douglas style 5" by 5" compact plotter is perfect for small craft chart tables. Customize with 1.5mm drilled holes in the center and at the upper scale. This will enable DR and celestial navigation plotting without the need for dividers. Includes reciprocal courses around the perimeter compass rose.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/International-Square-Aviation-Plotter-by-ASA-ASA-CP-P5/221915409138?_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIM.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D41376%26meid%3Dfd94b43f76364a768e85b2c413b65a27%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D370550875543&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851

Sunday, October 8, 2017

Otis King Calculator for Celestial Navigation



The Otis King is a basic non electronic calculator with four place precision and is good enough to perform law of cosine sight reduction to 1' for celestial navigation and great circle sailing purposes. Easy to learn multiplication and division routines. Find for reasonable cost on Ebay.

http://fer3.com/arc/m2.aspx/Otis-King-Sight-Reduction-Rudzinski-oct-2017-g40309

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsJtK-AVkmA&t=54s