A navigator takes a bearing to a lighthouse and records it. Unable to take a second simultaneous bearing, the navigator advances the first LOP along the DR track and crosses it with a second bearing taken 20 minutes later. The resulting position is called a:

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C. Running fix — Bowditch Ch. 7 §702 defines a running fix as a fix obtained when LOPs cannot be taken simultaneously; the first LOP is advanced along the DR track to the time of the second observation and the intersection is the running fix. It is less accurate than a fix from simultaneous LOPs.

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A. Fix

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B. Estimated position

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D. Dead reckoning position

A navigator takes a bearing to a lighthouse and records it. Unable to take a second simultaneous bearing, the navigator advances the first LOP along the DR track and crosses it with a second bearing taken 20 minutes later. The resulting position is called a:

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