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Old 18-01-2006, 07:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Moonshine
Thanks guys - I think the mistake I was making was in tihnking that with East variation, true south was to the RIGHT of magnetic south - I seem to remember "variation east - magnetic least" from my flying days, so I had been aligning the scope to the right of magnetic south - not left as pointed out below.


Don
I must admit, I had to think about that too. Normally, of course, they probably assume you are facing north (America centric) while we think in terms of "south". Hope you get some success,

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