SAR Fundamentals/Navigation map
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Contents |
Material covered
- SAR Fundamentals Manual: Ch.13 "Navigation"
- Basic SAR Skills Manual: Ch.7 "Navigation"
Time alloted
4.5 hr
- 2008-01-03 13:00-17:30
- 2011-03: 13:00-16:30, 09:13-10:24 4.6h
too long - student were exhausted in 2011
Lesson plan
See UTM lesson plan Navigation#Training.
Syllabus
- map reading:
- features - 30min
- recognize roads, buildings, railways
- date of culture check
- recognize lakes, reservoirs, rivers, creeks, streams
- recognize forested, unforested
- elevation - 90min
- contour lines
- contour interval
- counting up or down
- elevation of several point
- find highest, lowest spot on map
- steepness of slope. find steepest, flatest place on map
- recognizing land forms
- route selection - 15min
- estimating travel time
- UTM - 30min
- 6 digit
- visual estimate
- using roamer
- distance - 20min
- scales
- measurements
- directions - 45min
- cardinal directions
- degree directions
- true north
- grid north, adding or subtracting
- bearing between two points
- triangulation - 45min
- features - 30min
Student Questions
- where are the meridians for zones 11U and 12U?
Aids
- 82G/8 and 82H/5 for each pair of students
- plenty of table space
- overhead projector
- screen
- slides of topo maps
- a compass for each pair of students
- pencil for each student
- map quality eraser for each pair
- /Sample UTM Points
- /Sample Distances and Bearings
- /Sample Triangulations
