[BC] FM bays, slight drift

[Cowboy]

On Friday 13 February 2009 10:28 am, Tom Bosscher wrote:
>  OK,
>      This has little to do with whether to go with 1 bay or 16, but about 
>  the curvature of the earth...
>  
>      Assuming the earth as a round ball, ( I know it isn't a perfect 
>  ball), and assuming Kansas type dead flat land, just how much does the 
>  earth "drop" after 1 mile? I know I should know this, and it probably is 
>  high school math, but I'm just a curious and lazy kind of guy...

 On the order of about 7 inches.

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Cowboy