Landfall procedure?

[Baendu]

I have a bubble sextant installed in my plane in the flight sim. (Can be found here http://kronzky.info/fs/sextant/index.html). I do it pretty much the same as you would in real life.  A few differences.  You have to know the altitude and azimith of the body from your assumed position ahead of time(can't just look out the window and spot a star to shoot).  Can be easily looked up on the Naval observatory website.  I learned about it (and thenauticalalmanac.com) from this forum thread http://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/showthread...-Positions.  I think if I use my Rude star finder and almanac I could calculate the height and azimith ahead of time without using the Naval observatory website but I'm not quite that far yet.  The Bubble sextant in game has a sort of
Cheater chart for plotting a fix but I usually do it on paper to get the practice.  A lot of fun actually and a good way to learn the concepts behind celnav.


-Dustin