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Originally Posted by navyhmc
One other thing. While doing a compass course: Look Around! Don't keep your eyes glues to the compass. Unless you're in 1' vis muck, you'll miss stuff and if you notice things ahead of you and to the sides of you if you get off course, you have other things to follow other than the complass. Always have a back-up plan.
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This is great advice..I am in the middle of doing my navagation class at the lake and i found myself looking at just the compass at first and missing out on what was around me and the natural navagation points. I was quite excited i did get back to my starting point which for me is a miracle. I suck at having a sense of direction so learning to use a compass is a long overdue skill for me to learn.