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Old January 2nd 08, 05:15 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Mxsmanic wrote:
Tina writes:


You can be fairly sure he used someone else's equations for line of
sight. I'd bet a significant sum he could not derive them himself. He
and Euclid would not have gotten along.


It's just simple trig. In fact, it's just solving for different sides of a
right triangle, as should be obvious from the description I gave.


Wrong; the optical line of sight is different than the geometric line of
sight because the atmosphere bends light.


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