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again in the area.

I flew the prescribed length of time and made a slight turn to the right as indicated on my map.  I was over a solid undercast at this time. I still did not have an exact fix and did not know position.  I knew I was still to the right of course so I allowed a few degrees correction to bring me back to course.

I had tried once before to find my position with the sextant and at this time I tried again. I could not do this with any accuracy because of my late take off.  All my celestal computations were for thirty minutes earlier and I had no way or time or the ability to re-compute them.

I was not too worried my [[strikethrough]] navegate [[\strikethrough]] navigation because I knew I was fairly close to course and the compass was accurate