Reciprocals

[[70521]]

I have you visual at your 9 o'clock usual worked for me. Confirming I had seen the paraffin budgie and I was on his port side.

Usually followed by a very clipped RAF voice confirming he had spotted my flare/smoke.

 

[prv]

Your observation is indeed logical, but long established emergency and standard navigation procedures dictate bearings from land marks etc. Imperative if there is any chance of language difficulty.

Of course, if using the wrong kind of bearing would put the casualty vessel on top of the hill behind the lighthouse, the situation becomes unambiguous

Pete

 

[nigelmercier]

You two are agreeing with each other, except that Nigel is forgetting that the OP specified that he's facing North...

I didn't forget as such, the OP mentioned a northerly course as a possible option, so I tried to give an answer to the question before and after this was stated.

 

[Oldhairy]

Is 'strain' a language then?

Presumably, that practice was established, when mainly ships were in distress, not multitudes of amateur yotties, up to their armpits in water in a F8.

Not only in distress but all position reporting AND in cardinals. Adding or subtracting 180 is not really spherical trigonometry.

 

[alant]

Not only in distress but all position reporting AND in cardinals. Adding or subtracting 180 is not really spherical trigonometry.

When 'up to your arse in crocodiles', it is for many that I know.