Club Arnage

Does anyone know the Latitude and Longitude of Maison Blanche??

Anyone out there with a decent quality map that might have it on it??

Well
Latitude:  N47° 56 Min. 30 Sec.
Longitude: E0° 12 Min. 30 Sec.

Should get you close enough.  

Not 100% up on lat and long, but on my serie blue map it looks 0 degrees 12' and approx 48" est du meridien international ( the bottom one)
47 degrees 55' 16" up the side.
Is this for the NASA beer refuelling rocket to land?

somewhere in that region

It somehow seems appropriate that a "postie" should demonstrate that degree of geographical accuracy!!!

 ;D

p.s. just kidding ya, my own postie's lil knobbly knees brighten up many a morning (well about lunchtime actually)

Thnaks everyone. Looking to confirm the elevation required for the satellite dish!  :)

No Not even close no air port there.  :-(

There will be differences due to th eDatum in use.  The Standard is WGS84 these days but you map may be bases on some other Datum.

The Airfield is N47565500   E000120600 MB is to the east of that.  The datum for the Airfield is WGS84.  

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Cojones.  You know as well as I do that a did of twiddling and pointing at that big group of trees on the horizon and Robert is your mother's brother.

It worked for me last year when I set up Robbo's dish.

The dish elevation is almost no different to that in the UK.  It's all spherical trigonometry you know!

it does make a change, im usually clueless as to where i am!

on a brighter note, i just got my £1074 bonus through, n i only work 5 hours a week ;D. it finally pays to be a postie!!!


well, if it helps, the elevation stated on the map is 62 metres, and im pretty sure its acurate

A dont forget to allow for that theory that NASA and the americans build in random errors to the satellites and GPS locations so no-one but them knows where they are....i remember hearing that somewhere.......out on a boat.

F

LOL that doesnt surprise me at all, and would explain why Beemer and Merc drivers are useless at navigating, despite having the 'best GPS around'

well, if it helps, the elevation stated on the map is 62 metres, and im pretty sure its acurate

The Airfield Elevation is 193ft so 62 Mtr is prolly correct.

Just in case you need it The magnetic variation is 2.4West.

dont forget to allow for deviation too!

fran, I didn't realise that you were into deviants.... But no worries it's allowed!

 ;)

bill

More or less compulsory I would say........

Assuming you want to receive Astra2D (the one with Sky and the BBC channels on it), You should point your dish at 144 degrees true (Azimuth) using a compass and elevate it to 28.6 degrees from the horizontal. This is about 3-4 degrees higher elevation than if you were in the South of England. Because of the way dishes are shaped with an offset focus, the front face will be pointing only slightly above the horizon. If you dont have a calibrated bracket it would be worthwhile checking it at home and then setting it to a higher angle when you get there.
It does work if you keep away from the trees - trust me! 8)

A bcoombes eh, not the baz coombes that did the report for Speed Sunday on last years race and used to be on How To?

If it is you then i spent the entire ferry over pointing at you and trying to explain to the rest of the team you were off the telly.  None of them had heard of you.

Sorry, but I'm not  him. Just an old hand getting ready for my 8th trip to La Sarthe and planning to watch the US GP on the Sunday evening in BSJ.
Have a good one. :)