Re: Basic navigational skills badly missing

Simon Caldwell <simonjcaldwell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote 
On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 21:11:09 -0000, "Paul Saunders"
<pvs1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Traditional navigation is all very well if you can do it, but clearly some
people aren't that skilled at it, especially in a whiteout.  Yet even
unskilled navigators would be able to ascertain their exact position with a
GPS.  Of course, I'm not suggesting taking *only* a GPS.


OK, so they presumably need a compass as back-up in case the batteries
fail in the GPS.  But if they always take a GPS, how do they get the
skills needed to use a compass properly?

A GPS would be an excellent way of validating the accuracy of traditional navigation, if only referred to at the end of the exercise. ;-)
--
Gordon Harris
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