You will never regret putting time into developing your land navigation skills.
They’re as useful to finding your way around a strange city as they are on a wilderness adventure. Learn how to orient yourself and the world is never, well, disorienting.
Our training will teach you how to use compasses, maps, various coordinate systems and more to determine your location and find your way wherever you need to be. We even teach the basics of celestial navigation, and ancient but still effective navigation technique, as part of this course.
These skills translate into many real-world, even everyday applications for some individuals.
Our land navigation course helps you develop skills that are relevant for:
- Volunteering with a search and rescue team
- Taking any Special Forces Assessment & Selection (SFAS) qualification course
- Officer Candidate School (OCS)
- Any elite forces training
- Adventure racing
- Hiking and outdoor adventuring
- Hunting
What You’ll Learn
The Urban Survival Academy Land Navigation presentations include:
- Orienting, Lensatic or Hybrid Compass Selection and Use
- Map Reading: USGS Topographic and Other Maps
- Map Scales: 1:24,000, 1:25,000, 1:50,000 and all others
- Day and Night Land Navigation: Including Dead Reckoning and Terrain Association Route Planning, Short or Long-Range Operations
- How to Adjust for Declination, Anywhere in the World
- Triangulation: Section & Resection, Modified Section
- UTM, USNG, MGRS and Lat/Long Coordinate Systems Plotting
- Skill Applications, Including Day and Night Hikes, Long-Range Outings
You don’t have to be an outdoors enthusiast or interested in wilderness survival to benefit from land navigation training at the Urban Survival Academy. This course is useful for anyone, covers a basic skill and, while challenging, is also accessible to most everyone.
Contact us to get started.