[BC] Great Circle

[Alan Gearing]

Anyone know if the distance and bearing function in Continental's
E-Slide program is great circle or plane earth?  I used to know but 
can't remember now.

Al Gearing

Jeff Glass wrote:
> In a message dated 4/23/10 8:01:03 AM Central Daylight Time,
> broadcast-request at radiolists.net writes:
>
>> I always thought the FCC Distance and Azimuth calculator was a great
>> circle calculator!
>>
>>   -bcd
>>
>>
> Bruce:
>
> It is. I'm looking for a freeware windows app that I can load on my
> computer so I won't be dependent on an Internet connection to do my calculations.
>
> Lots of stuff comes up as a Google result. but I prefer to use something
> that the membership here has used so that I get something that's known good.
>
> Lots of garbage available on the net, and companies like to promote the
> fact that a download is free only to find out that the free download is really
> a brain-dead evaluation version.
>
> I would rather avoid the frustration by consulting with people who know;
> the members here on this list.
>
> Jeff Glass
> Northern Illinois University
>

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