SAR Fundamentals/Search skills and compass practical

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Navigation, part 3, instruments - practical - compass

Material covered

• Compass Practical and Pacing

1 hr

• Search techniques

3.25 hr

Aids

• map of exercise areas

Organizer

If you're willing, I'm asking you to take the lead on planning all of this. Ron Hann and I will be working to your direction. It may make sense to have Ron do the Type 4 and me to do the Compass stations, as before. But I wouldn't be adverse to working a different station.

You'll need to set up the clues for all the Search Types. You may want to use the same map and layout as last time. Map is on the link above.

However, there may be some snow cover, so the kind of clues may be a bit different. Or white index cards may be very appropriate on white snow. We may have to adapt and improvise.

You may want to cover the area with tracks to avoid having the searchers use tracking instead of Type 1 - 4 search techniques.

Schedule

12:00 Lunch

12:30

• at classroom
• split teams
• head to first location

Stations

There are 3 stations:

• for Type 1 Search,
• for Type 4 Search,
• for Compass Practical.

The students are split into 3 teams and rotated through each station.

12:45 Rotation 1

• Team S1 - Compass
• Team S2 - Type 1
• Team S3 - Type 4

13:45 Rotation 2

• Team S1 - Type 1
• Team S2 - Type 4
• Team S3 - Compass

14:45 Rotation 3

• Team S1 - Type 4
• Team S2 - Compass
• Team S3 - Type 1

Together

15:45 Type 2

16:45 Type 3

17:00 sign out