NAV-06 · Course Map
Navigation Using a GPS
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Lessons unlock in order: finishing the knowledge checks in one lesson opens the next. A lesson you have already completed stays open, so you can return to it as often as you like without losing your place.
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Lessons
Lesson 01
What GPS Is, and How It Fails
How a fix is computed, why the accuracy figure is an estimate rather than a promise, four conditions that degrade a position, and where the device sits in a PACE plan.
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What GPS Is, and How It Fails
How a fix is computed, why the accuracy figure is an estimate rather than a promise, four conditions that degrade a position, and where the device sits in a PACE plan.
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Lesson 02
The Constellations Above You
Four global systems, who runs them and why, and the two receiver capabilities people constantly confuse. Plus SBAS, the satellite-based augmentation setting most owners never decide about.
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The Constellations Above You
Four global systems, who runs them and why, and the two receiver capabilities people constantly confuse. Plus SBAS, the satellite-based augmentation setting most owners never decide about.
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Lesson 03
Device Selection and Configuration
The highest-value lesson in the course. Datum, coordinate format, north reference and units — the four settings that decide whether a correct coordinate means anything. Produces your settings card.
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Device Selection and Configuration
The highest-value lesson in the course. Datum, coordinate format, north reference and units — the four settings that decide whether a correct coordinate means anything. Produces your settings card.
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Lesson 04
Core Operations
Entering a written position without transcription error, navigating to it, taking an averaged position for a fixed site, and knowing when to distrust the accuracy estimate.
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Core Operations
Entering a written position without transcription error, navigating to it, taking an averaged position for a fixed site, and knowing when to distrust the accuracy estimate.
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Lesson 05
Routes, Tracks, and Retracing Your Path
Building a route from map recon before you move, naming points the whole group can read, recording intervals and their battery cost, and why retracing a path is not following a route.
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Routes, Tracks, and Retracing Your Path
Building a route from map recon before you move, naming points the whole group can read, recording intervals and their battery cost, and why retracing a path is not following a route.
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Lesson 06
Integrating GPS With Map and Compass
The core skill of the course. Moving a position between device and paper, using the ground as the verification layer on every fix, and the decision rule for when the two disagree.
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Integrating GPS With Map and Compass
The core skill of the course. Moving a position between device and paper, using the ground as the verification layer on every fix, and the decision rule for when the two disagree.
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Lesson 07
Reporting a Position
Feeding positions into a contact report, a situation report and a medical evacuation request. What six, eight and ten digits each claim, and passing one by radio without error.
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Reporting a Position
Feeding positions into a contact report, a situation report and a medical evacuation request. What six, eight and ten digits each claim, and passing one by radio without error.
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Lesson 08
Device Security and Emissions Control
What the device stores and transmits about you, how to sanitize it before and after movement, and when it goes off entirely.
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Device Security and Emissions Control
What the device stores and transmits about you, how to sanitize it before and after movement, and when it goes off entirely.
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Lesson 09
Degraded, Denied, and Dead
Recognizing from your side that a fix has stopped being reliable, offline mapping, power management, and the deliberate handoff to map and compass without halting movement.
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Degraded, Denied, and Dead
Recognizing from your side that a fix has stopped being reliable, offline mapping, power management, and the deliberate handoff to map and compass without halting movement.
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Lesson 10
Group Standard and Field Exercise
Standardizing datum, format and naming so positions are portable between members. Then the capstone: load a route, walk it, verify at three checkpoints, and finish with the device off.
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Group Standard and Field Exercise
Standardizing datum, format and naming so positions are portable between members. Then the capstone: load a route, walk it, verify at three checkpoints, and finish with the device off.
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Completion
Course Certificate
Issued once every lesson is complete. Print it or save it for your training record.
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Issued once every lesson is complete. Print it or save it for your training record.
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