Quotes About Navigation

I didn't want to crash into the ocean, but from watching Han Solo navigate an asteroid field to watching movies like 'Perfect Storm,' it would always kind of get my adrenaline up, and I knew it was something I wanted to do.

Solar storms cause power outages. They pose a hazard to satellites. They might interfere with your GPS or send your compass a couple of degrees off course. But I don't think solar storms are a life-threatening event.

The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck.

Men know something that women don't know. Never ask directions of a stranger.

I'd like to have a perfect sense of direction. I could get lost with a GPS strapped to my arm.

Intel Inside logo: Cars with navigation systems bear the imprint, "NavTeq Onboard." Data is indeed the Intel Inside of these applications, a sole source component in systems whose software

The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink.

If the plane you fly has a true airspeed of 120 to 180 knots, you need to be thinking about weather at least 120 miles to 180 miles ahead of your present position. That means the conditions you'll face at least one hour in front of your present position should be carefully considered now.

With respect to altitude, MEA means you would fly the highest of the following: Minimum en route altitude, Expected altitude, or Assigned altitude. When do you leave your clearance limit? That depends.

Hold east of Appleton VOR on the 090 degree radial, 5 nautical mile legs, left turns, expect further clearance at 1630 Zulu, time now 1600 Zulu.").

Instrument pilots cannot descend from an en route altitude to an approach-level altitude or ultimately the minimum descent altitude when they wish.

You are X miles from the marker; turn left heading 120 degrees, maintain 3,000 feet until established on the localizer, cleared for the ILS 9R approach at KXYZ.

Rebecca Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost

32°46? latitude, 171°91? longitude

cant get there from here

Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.

It is hard for anyone born after 1945 to imagine a world where the oceans - the global commons - are not open for trade and commerce or where freedom of navigation is imperiled.

I'm fascinated by the challenge of navigating the oceans.

With a labyrinth, you make a choice to go in - and once you've chosen, around and around you go. But you always find your way to the center.

I got lost one time for a couple hours. It was pretty bad. I got lost in a creek, and I couldn't find my way back. The cops even had to come.

Browseability is the key online.

It's important to know how to operate within the system you are existing in.

I think robotics is a really hard problem - to make robots that operate in sort of arbitrary environments, like a big conference room with chairs and stuff.

Keep your run along a course between those constellations. I leave the rest to Fortune: may she help and guide you better than you do yourself.