SAR Fundamentals/Navigation instruments theory
From PCSAR
- 1.75hr - 09:30 - 11:30
- includes break
- 0.25 - 10:30-10:45
- includes break
- 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.
- 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.
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
