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Old 05-10-2022, 01:17 PM
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Originally Posted by By.Jove View Post
As a surveyor in a former life could we please use the correct terminology - it is "magnetic deviation" (from north) not "declination".

As a former navigator the term we used was MAGNETIC VARIATION (and the associated mantra for applying the correction west is best east is least) but declination is also used, I never heard it called deviation there is also the DIP but that is another story....


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