Re: MURPHY AT WAR

From: <JRebori682@aol.com>

> My charts and your maps dont agree on where the landmarks are. We
discover
it
> when my heavy NGFS mission lands where you dont expect/want it

In the days pre WGS-84 and GPS, this was the norm rather than the
exception.

> Charts are wrong about close in depth. I end up aground and an
excellent
> target for counter-battery.

Still the norm for many parts of the world. Sandbanks are notoriously
mobile.

> Pilot thinks he knows how to read a map. Hasn't had his compass
calibrated
> lately.

FC radar you're using to track that lighthouse in order to get an
accurate
posfix is out-of-alignment by a few tenths of a degree.

> John Rebori
> USN 1976 - 1982