Dead Reckoning for Land Navigation

I love your inclusion of historical facts. These things make the walks so much more interesting.

Great work. You should write a book about navigation and surviving outside, as I guess you have already written/put together all the materials.

I admire how quick you do calculations in your head on the fly. I guess it comes with preactice; which is something I should do more often.

Best bloke on YouTube. Keep it up mate 👍 It's great.

You are a brilliant educator.

Started watching your videos to help me out with backpacking and I am pursuing a military career as well. There are so many videos out there on how to do land nav etc but yours are so simple and straight forward.I applaud the way you make it so easy for viewers to follow with examples etc. These have proven invaluable to me. I watch a few per night and rewatch anything I need to brush up on. Thanks again !

You are the Keith Floyd of navigation. Brilliant presentation 👍

Your advice is so like a book.. You really should consider writing a book

Greetings from masono/judeo America. Love the lectures, best ever! Thank you for your service to education, teacher! Best regards!!! Later.

that was amazingly clear! now i understand yet another map reading skill! i'll never be able to get lost 😂 (well locationally challenged anyway!) and never... more like not as likely get lost! 😂😂

Excellent as always! Your maps are so detailed! It is as though they’ve built history right into the map!Our USGS maps of the southwest show terrain quite well but very few of the features are actually named. Of course, the features are all named but if you want to know you have to ask a local.😊

as always - brillant, brilliant video, a real human and please keep up with the waffle....we all love it, its always useful and interesting!

For me, the most important thing is keeping track of how large my error is. If I pace off 600 meters, how far will I have walked? It's not 600 meters, it's somewhere between 580 and 620 meters, or between 500 and 700 meters, depending upon the terrain. Similarly, if I'm following a bearing of 83 magnetic, what course did I follow? Between 80 and 86, or 78 and 88, again depending upon terrain. When you finish your leg, you might be 50m from your destination, or 200m, depending. Don't expect everything to happen perfectly. Expect there to be an error and plan for it. If you're aiming for a spot on a linear feature, intentionally aim to one side. That way when you get to it you know which way to turn. Don't follow an 800m compass bearing trying to find some point in an open field, walk to the closest identifiable landmark and plot a compass bearing from there.

Thank you for all your fine work and video productions. Enjoying your lessons as I watch the snow fall (Western Canada) and wait for Spring and my outdoor treks! Wayne

Useful information well presented. As usual on this channel.

I was walking in that very spot last Monday! Thanks for the videos Wayne.

Well done. Clear and concise.

Thanks for another great video. I always get something out of them.

Only recently discovered this channel, a great find! Great video, look forward to the search techniques video soon 😀

Excellent teaching. Good, refresher thank you.