STEERING BY COMPASS
MARGIN ALLOWED FOR WIND NEITHER SKILLED NAVIGATOR (Special to THE SUN.) WELLINGTON, To-day. Neither Lieutenant Moncrietf nor Captain Hood was a skilled navigator, but Lieutenant Moncrieff studied charts at Gifford’s Navigation School before leaving Wellington, and was given a chart showing the alterations in the compass of about a degree every hour in order to make the shortest possible distance without reckoning winds. This course would have allowed a margin of error of 20 degrees either way and they would still strike some part .of the New Zealand coast. Strong side winds, however, might have driven the machine further out than 20 degrees, with the result that they would miss the Dominion altogether.
Dr. Kidson, Government Meteorologist, states that all reports received from the Tasman yesterday indicated very light winds, so the chance of missing the land on ’account of winds seemed almost impossible.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 250, 12 January 1928, Page 1
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