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echo: aviation
to: JIM SANDERS
from: BILL WUNSCH
date: 1998-05-23 14:08:00
subject: The sextant

Greetings, Jim!
  On 21 May 98, Jim Sanders entered the following ASCII codes for the express 
viewing pleasure of All:
 JS>      I think we still should continue to teach use of the sextant
 JS>  just as we furnish lifeboats, parachutes and life jackets.
You make a good point.  I think the powers to be are having second thoughts 
about decomissioning all the old navaids, too.  With everything switched to 
satellite based navigation and approach aids, we would be in a sad fix indeed 
if the system failed and there were no more VORs, NDBs, etc.
                                             -==-
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