Reply to post: Re: I guess I'm too much of a navigation geek...

Navigating without GPS is one thing – so let's jam it and see what happens to our warship

the Jim bloke
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Re: I guess I'm too much of a navigation geek...

I perfected my navigation skills playing the original Wizardry computer game..

I could tell exactly where I was from 3 perpendicular white lines, identical to every other white line, on a blank field.

This is actually based on a similar principle to the fallback system for when GNSS loses lock - most have some sort of inertial tracking that calculates your new position based on last good position and measured movement...

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