This question comes back to me from time to time, and as no one is supposed to ignore the law, I feel obliged to make my contribution to the edification of the crowds (boating) providing a collective response.
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Plan your air traffic… ULM
In the word « Aeronautic » there is « Nautic ».What gives me a good reason to write about applications for private aviators. And I always dreamed of flying, but only had the opportunity to go paragliding for too short years.
I'll, for once, gain altitude to discuss a new application available from the iPad 11 March 2011 : BASES-AERO (HD).
Applications F-AERO, [...]
A test onboard with Navigation Mac
During a weekend of January a little sad, we joined the port of L'Herbaudière, Isle of Noirmoutier, via the picturesque Gois passage at low tide.
We, that is to say, a boating journalist, my wife and myself.
Greeted by two « natural » of the country, Henry and Jean-Etienne. The latter giving us a superb Oceanis 347 for the first test board, in France, navigation applications on a Mac, iPad and iPhone. [...]
Receiving AIS on the Web
For some years websites for viewing marine traffic grew on the web. Two of them caught my attention because they present very different options.
Marine Traffic, AIS Community
Marine Traffic is part of a university project, free and community-based project, devoted to the collection and presentation of data used in several research areas. It provides real-time information free to the public, on the movement [...]
The voice of the shipping forecast
The shipping forecast, or rather I should write : Marine Weather, with uppercase, is on modern browsers what the ancient gods in our distant ancestors : a permanent reference to the conduct of our lives.
1 – The Long Waves
Not so long ago, This deity addressed us, marine trade, fishermen and boaters, by a heavenly voice carried by the waves. Our High Priestess, Marie-Pierre Planchon, informing us twice a day for, happy or fearful, that we might know as we venture over the waves. In that time the weather had a name and a voice, recognizable at once ear.
About alignments and sextant
This holiday season, during which we will gladly return for a few days to traditions, inspires me to rethink the traditions of an activity that is dear to us : navigation.
Not one of our illustrious predecessors, royal marine, discoverers of distant lands, privateers, pirates or honest merchants, no. I want to mention one that concerns us for over half a century : yachting. Particularly to the attention of our friends browsers [...]
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