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« on: January 16, 2012, 09:45:05 PM »
Greetings,

Somewhere on this site I ran across the recommendation to read Piloting and Dead Reckoning by Shufeldt and Dunlap. It was a great book! Methodical, clear, wry. It shows how to interact with charts in a dynamic and meaningful way. Hey! More fun!

Twice in the book he mentions having enough information for a "2000 fix," but nowhere explains what a 2000 fix is. I just did the Google on it and didn't get anywhere. What does it mean?

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« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2012, 11:54:58 AM »
Hi Porter,

Since no one else is offering a better answer, I'll take a stab.

Could he have been meaning the time of the fix, one done at 8 pm?

In a 'traditional' four hour watch cycle, the watch change at 20:00 starts the "evening watch," and it would be SOP to record a DR position or fix at the watch change.
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« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2012, 12:09:56 PM »
I'm with John on that. I haven't read the book, but the standard way of writing times in 24-hour notation is without any colons. It would make sense to take a fix at 2000.

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« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2012, 11:31:15 PM »
Duh!!! Thanks you guys.
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