SAR Fundamentals/Navigation instruments theory

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1.75hr - 09:30 - 11:30
includes break
0.25 - 10:30-10:45
SAR Fundamentals Ch.13 "Navigation"
Basic SAR Skills Manual: Ch.7 "Navigation"
stride count

Compass

  • How does global compass work at any latitude?

GPS

  • GPS component covers up to 1:13 of the attached lesson plan
    • Waypoints are not an essential skill for using GPS. Students should be recording locations on paper, and should be able to estimate relative direction and distance to a new location.
      • This material can be covered in additional material presented by a SAR group outside the SAR Fundamentals course.

Image:GPS-lesson-plan.odt (pdf)

Aids

  • compasses for students
  • 5 Pincher SAR Garmin eTrex GPS's
  • 1 Brett Wuth's Garmin eTrex GPS
  • 5 copies topo map of locale (82 H/5)
  • copy for each student of local street map
  • copy for each student of PCSAR Doc-69 “GPS - Set-Up and Maintenance
  • copy for each student of outside exercise sheet, adapted to locale
  • Radios
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