Wilderness Navigation Handbook by Fred Touche PDF

By Fred Touche

ISBN-10: 0973252707

ISBN-13: 9780973252705

Designed for either land and water use, this complete consultant is helping free up the complexity of map and chart examining because it pertains to navigation. starting with unique technical descriptions of the instruments of navigation—a compass, an altimeter, a GPS method, and a sextant—this instruction manual indicates tips to use those instruments both separately or together with one another to navigate any quarter. elements that reason instruments and methods to fail are mentioned, equivalent to why an altimeter frequently indicates the inaccurate elevation, a GPS place is usually astray, and the sunlight frequently issues in an unforeseen path. Twenty-one real-life situations supply useful knowledge for even the main intrepid navigator. particular details on utilizing the moon for instructions and the celebs for place, measuring boiling water temperature for elevation, map projections, map datums, nice circle routes, and the UTM/UPS grid procedure is included.

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