[Boatanchors] LORAN - A

[Walter Treftz]

Regarding the recent comments on LORAN-A vs GPS conflicts (at sea), as a recently retired
merchant navy person mostly as REO (but also licensed as a mate), the way we solved any
doubts and maintained training on my last ship (captained by a Greek with US citizenship)
was that we used celestial to check on GPS (or maybe it was the other way around as he put
more trust in the stars). GPS was used for hourly fixes in the log, ETA's, etc. Stars were used
for morninig and evening stars and the sun for noon latitude. This keps us all sharp on both
methods. When (if) there were conflicts in the position, other methods (like DR, RDF, etc)
were used to resolved things in the chartroom without violence.
73 & BV
Walt (N4GL)