A navigator obtains a bearing on a lighthouse at 0800 and cannot obtain a second simultaneous bearing. At 0830 the navigator advances the 0800 LOP along the DR track and crosses it with a new bearing. The resulting position is called a:

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B. 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. A fix requires simultaneous LOPs per §701.

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A. Fix

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C. DR position

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D. Estimated position

A navigator obtains a bearing on a lighthouse at 0800 and cannot obtain a second simultaneous bearing. At 0830 the navigator advances the 0800 LOP along the DR track and crosses it with a new bearing. The resulting position is called a:

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