[Milsurplus] Naval Aviation Navigation

[Hue Miller]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J. Forster" <jfor at quik.com>



> The horizon is a LOOONG way away at altitude.
> 
> See:  http://williams.best.vwh.net/avform.htm#Horizon
> 
> For example, 117 nm at 10,000 ft.
> 
> -John

So, if you needed to get  home direction, say at the maximum distance out of your attack
flight, you would climb to necessary  altitude, altho that would cost in fuel, and probably 
not, at least for carrier based planes, be a practicable sustained flight altitude.
I wonder how Japan dealt with this problem.
-H M