🔍 Key Concepts

• Great-circle vs. rhumb line on a gnomonic chart • What situations call for composite sailing (limiting latitude or exclusion zones) • How hazards that are linear vs. circular/area-based affect route planning

💭 Think About

• First, sketch or visualize the great-circle track between the two given positions on the gnomonic chart. Which of the four hazards lies such that the great-circle would pass through or very near it? • Ask yourself: Which option describes a hazard that forms a large area or "forbidden zone" that you need to skirt smoothly, rather than a single point or narrow line you can simply dog-leg around? • Consider how composite sailing is constructed: you sail along a great-circle until you touch a limiting boundary (latitude or circular area), then follow that boundary. Which choice best fits that description?

✅ Before You Answer

• Verify which hazard is closest to the plotted great-circle track between the departure and destination on WOXZC 5274. • Check whether the hazard creates a need for a limiting parallel or limiting curve that you must follow for some distance, not just a brief course alteration. • Confirm that the selected option would make a simple single great-circle plus one small alteration impractical, pushing you instead toward designing a composite great-circle/limiting boundary route.