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Topic: Question 6-4
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Sandy Englehart
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posted February 17, 2005 09:07 AM
I used the Luminous Range chart, entered the values, and came up with something that looks like 13. Am I using the chart wrong? Thanks.
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David Burch
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posted February 22, 2005 01:41 PM
No you are not using it wrong. The problem is we have two different diagrams in the materials. There is a short note on this in the Tech Support section.
The Luminous range diagram in the printed Chart Problems book is from the US Light List. We have since added a much better one (I think from a Canadian pub) and you can find it at this Luminous range discussion.
A section is below with this problem marked, and i would have to say that something like 11 miles would be the best luninous range for this example. The original diagram had the curve at 5.5 nm visibility, so that is why the problem is stated that way, and the new one shows the curve at 5 nm. In practice we would never know the distinction, because we cannot know the visibility to that precision.
Note that our trick formula for luminous range gives: 5.5/10 x 18 + 1 = 10.9, so 11 is pretty good guess for this.
From: Starpath, Seattle, WA
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