Thread: something for you oldies

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

the defence force has used mils, backbearings and resections based on dead reckoning practise , all based on a grid , used by Army , AirForce and Navy.

don't know what a new generation soldier uses or learns, perhaps someone may tell.

I highly doubt that any of that training has ceased.

Originally Posted by cjc_td5

A fair chunk of that probably came from errors or miss communication of decimal or min/sec coordinates, or translating between survey datums (GDA94 etc).

Yep, all of that will do it, even with a purchased GPS. Gotta check the stock settings.

DL