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Coriolis effect
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<blockquote data-quote="Brent" data-source="post: 29317" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>Phil,</p><p>The way I understood Dave's explanation and the article you posted the link to, which Dave pasted above, says the same thing? </p><p></p><p>POI will always be to the right in the northern, and to the left in the southern hemisphere.</p><p></p><p><strong>The result is that an object traveling away from the equator will eventually be heading east faster than the ground below it and will seem to be forced east by some mysterious force. Objects traveling towards the equator will eventually be going more slowly than the ground beneath them and will seem to be forced west."</strong></p><p></p><p>Now, I'll bet it has a varying degree of deviation depending on what latitude you're shooting from as well. In the same hemisphere and shooting the same direction and the same distance that is...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brent, post: 29317, member: 99"] Phil, The way I understood Dave's explanation and the article you posted the link to, which Dave pasted above, says the same thing? POI will always be to the right in the northern, and to the left in the southern hemisphere. [B]The result is that an object traveling away from the equator will eventually be heading east faster than the ground below it and will seem to be forced east by some mysterious force. Objects traveling towards the equator will eventually be going more slowly than the ground beneath them and will seem to be forced west."[/B] Now, I'll bet it has a varying degree of deviation depending on what latitude you're shooting from as well. In the same hemisphere and shooting the same direction and the same distance that is... [/QUOTE]
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