SAR Fundamentals/Compass practical and pacing

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: SAR Fundamentals Manual: Ch.13 "Navigation"
: SAR Fundamentals Manual: Ch.13 "Navigation"
: Basic SAR Skills Manual: Ch.7 "Navigation"
: Basic SAR Skills Manual: Ch.7 "Navigation"
* Navigation - section 3 - compass use and exercise
* Navigation - section 3 - compass use and exercise
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* SAR Fundamentals - Chapter 13 - Navigation
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* [[:Image:2010-03-18 22 25 36u-scan.pdf|Pacing and bearing exercise]]
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* SAR Fundamentals - Chapter 13 - Navigation
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Revision as of 00:32, 7 February 2013

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Subject

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Authors

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Scope

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SAR Fundamentals Manual: Ch.13 "Navigation"
Basic SAR Skills Manual: Ch.7 "Navigation"
  • Navigation - section 3 - compass use and exercise

Prerequisites

What should students already know/have accomplished before the lesson is presented.


Objectives

At the conclusion of this lesson the participants:

  1. will be able to ...
  • know cardinal directions
  • know compass degrees
  • know what affects a compass
  • magnetic declination
  • shooting a bearing with a compass
  • pacing
  • exercises:
    • bearings
    • pacing / bearing
  • backbearing
  • offsets

Time Plan

Total Time: 45 minutes


Time Material


00:00

3 min

Introduce topic title

Introduce Instructor

Present Objectives

00:03


instructional points in normal font

aids, exercises, activities in italic

1/ discuss Magnetic Declination

  • Where needle points
  • Reading declination from map (add grid N)
  • Adjusting declination on compass

2/ shooting a bearing with a compass

  • using compass
    • avoid metal
      • belt buckle
    • avoid magnetic fields
  • holding compass
    • hold flat
  • sighting
    • using mirror
    • using sighting notches
  • reading bearing
    • rotating barrel
    • "red to the bed"
    • parallax problem
      • parallel needle edge, not needle in the middle
    • practice reading bearings to several objects
    • vary distance and note differences in error
  • walking a bearing
    • setting bearing
    • how far to look
    • practice finding destinations at several bearings

3/ Pacing

  • Step is one foot to the opposite
  • Pace is one foot to the same foot (two steps)
  • counting your pace
  • measure your pace in 10m
  • calculating distance from paces
  • calculating paces from distance

4/ Exercises: bearings

  • hand-out: Pacing and Traverse

5/ Advance

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  • back bearings
  • offsets



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