Section 7: The Basic Parameters of Navigation
We start on the navigation part of the course right at the beginning - where are we; where are we going; how do we get there? To answer these questions we need the basic parameters of navigation - position, direction and distance (and, related to distance via time, speed). This section deals with how we define these quantities as navigators
The section comprises the following:
Definition of position - derivation of latitude and longitude
bearing and range from a reference point
Definition of direction - the points of the compass
- the 360º notation
Definition of distance - the nautical mile, and
Speed - the knot