{"id":315,"date":"2020-12-08T15:17:32","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T15:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/?p=315"},"modified":"2020-12-08T15:17:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T15:17:32","slug":"the-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/2020\/12\/08\/the-fix\/","title":{"rendered":"The fix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The position obtained from the intersection of two or more position lines obtained at approximately the same time is called a fix. The term fix can only be applied to a position obtained from the observation of terrestrial objects. It is shown on the chart as a dot surrounded by a circle, with the time alongside it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_154\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154\" class=\"size-large wp-image-154\" src=\"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/11\/10.1.5.2_fig_1-1024x906.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"906\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/11\/10.1.5.2_fig_1-1024x906.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/11\/10.1.5.2_fig_1-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/11\/10.1.5.2_fig_1-768x679.jpg 768w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/11\/10.1.5.2_fig_1-165x146.jpg 165w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/11\/10.1.5.2_fig_1-50x44.jpg 50w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/11\/10.1.5.2_fig_1-85x75.jpg 85w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/11\/10.1.5.2_fig_1.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three intersecting bearing lines forming a position fix.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The position obtained from the intersection of two or more position lines obtained at approximately the same time is called a fix. The term fix can only be applied to a position obtained from the observation of terrestrial objects. It is shown on the chart as a dot surrounded by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10-1-navigation","category-10-1-5-chartwork-plotting-and-chart-symbols","category-10-1-5-2-the-fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}