Our Land Navigation training provides students with the hands-on experience and confidence to properly read a map and navigate over land using limited tools.

This 2-day course gives students the knowledge and skills to properly read a map and navigate over land using nothing more than a map, protractor, and compass. Today, GPS is a great technological tool but what if that technology fails? Furthermore, without a GPS do you know how to make your way? This course provides the essentials to read a map, analyze terrain, and decide on a route using control measures to travel over-land while exploiting the terrain to your advantage. This course is delivered in a progressive format that challenges and builds students’ confidence and self-reliance.

Topics covered include:

• Map Reading and interpreting the Marginal information on a map

• Properly interpreting Topographic Symbols

• Understanding Common Colors used on a map

• Interpreting Contour intervals

• Use of a protractor to determine grid coordinates and plot a location

• Converting Azimuths

• Determining distance

• Navigational Equipment and Methods

• Parts of a compass.

• Shooting an azimuth.

• Determining a back azimuth.

• Establishing a pace count.

• Interpretation of Terrain features

• Dead Reckoning

• Terrain association

• Route Planning for short or long-range operations