Uploaded March 2024 | Updated September 2026, 6 days ago

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Watching videos or reading websites about land navigation you could be forgiven for thinking that Land Navigation is only about using a compass. Whilst being able to use a compass is very important in the real world most people will simply use a map to navigate and only use a compass if there is any doubt about their location of direction of travel.
In this video I’ll try and show how the majority of people navigate safely just using a map for the majority of time.

Links to the other videos mentioned
The Five D’s of navigation
youtu.be/0zbCEXj_29U

Collecting and Catching features
youtu.be/hJumt1y6JLs

How to take a compass bearing
youtu.be/eaqynPX3sPo