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| bobbing a light Means quickly lowering the height of eye and raising it again when a navigational light is first sighted to determine if the observer is at the geographic range of the light. Sometimes just a little change will do, or go from cockpit to cabin top. See our Navigation Workbook, 18465tr exercise 3-16 for numerical example. |
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