Originally Posted by
Gunny
Okay @
Drummond let's get an expert in here. Does one lose sight of land crossing the English Channel? In the air?
Just thinking any real navigation skills might not be required.
A 6 ft tall person on the shoreline has a visible horizon of about 2 1/2 nautical miles.
Going by the delineation tables, he would have had to be about 10,000 feet up.
Bowditch: American Practical Navigator: https://thenauticalalmanac.com/2017_...d%20Object.pdf
A good flight, but I bet a GPS was used.
Last edited by Elessar; 08-05-2019 at 11:08 PM.
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