A navigator obtains a bearing on a lighthouse at 0900 and cannot obtain a second bearing simultaneously. The 0900 LOP is advanced along the DR track to 0930, when a second bearing is taken. The resulting position is called a:

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C. Running fix — Bowditch Ch. 7 §702 defines a running fix as the position obtained when the first LOP is advanced along the DR track to the time of a second observation and the two LOPs are then intersected. A fix requires simultaneous LOPs per Bowditch Ch. 7 §701.

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A. Fix

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B. Dead reckoning position

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D. Estimated position

A navigator obtains a bearing on a lighthouse at 0900 and cannot obtain a second bearing simultaneously. The 0900 LOP is advanced along the DR track to 0930, when a second bearing is taken. The resulting position is called a:

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