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Depends on how accurate you care to be. What is your location accuracy tolerance? I doubt those cheapie plastic things will get you...

It does take some practice. You need an accurate timepiece, knowledge of standard stars and how to recognize them, books of...

Do you consider the standby 'Whiskey Compass" as permanently unnecessary in every aircraft as well? If you should lose all electrical...

An old guide once told me to always carry 3 compasses. One as my own favorite primarry, a secondary in case something happens to the...

A little bit of befuddlement is good for the soul. And for improving your navigation skills. Never fear. When I was much much younger...

I use printed maps almost exclusively for onsite navigation. A standalone GPS is used only for lapses of befuddlement. However I'm...

At the time I was in scouts, (1960's) to advance from second to first class rank, a scout had to demonstate a minimm knowledge of a set...

Did you learn from "Paddle Paul"? -PP

I’m still, stubbornly, map and compass. I learned as a Boy Scout, reinforced by Voyager school in the ADKs, and now teach it to current...

Time flies like an arrow. But fruit flies like a banana. :giggle:

When I was in the Air Force as a KC-135 tanker air refueling navigator, on one of our missions out of Eielson AFB, I was chosen as lead...

Not photos of my father's originals . . . But when I was 12 in 1956, I was communicating with all of you at 5 WPM with this device...

I don't know anything obsolete about the old camp gear. Our power was out twice this past week. Pulled out the Coleman stove and...

I can't think of any traditional gear that is obsolete, that's one of its' benefits.

For the five Yukon River races I have been on (both the 440 miler YRQ and 1000 miler Y1K), I planned and plotted the entire route using...