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New Member Introductions / Hello from the Forest
« on: December 26, 2015, 06:35:45 PM »
Hi all.

Blimey....a 50 thou map is a shock when you have been out of this for years.  My last intimacy with map and compass was in my Regt orienteering team in the 90s...we won...scary.  I still have a knackered old thumb compass.  That and  bit of air nav (Gliders and the occasional LH seat) and my day job (AAC) and that was it.

Satnav.....Trimpacks in the gulf, kept going ga ga and I have never trusted them since....apart from the one I have for work which I found in a bin....works fine for ambling round Hampshire and saves reading a road map but otherwise, still a dinosaur.

Why am I here?  Well I wont be going round the beacons any time soon (although a mate threatened to drag me out on something silly but I am a KOS now who feels pleased if he runs a few hundred yards) but I have joined the ACF as a CFAV, so I thought I had better get with the program and at least make sure someone can use a compass.

I have started pawing through Mr Bs Book (least I did until a colleague nicked it....arggghhhh...) and pottering round the forest, loving it, learning to trust the compass and map (even if the tracks are missing...doh) and getting very muddy.

So standby for some very silly questions.  That said I was amazed at what Cadets don't learn so if I can make this subject interesting when I have to teach it, and it sticks, or I avoid going 10k out of my way with a bunch of trashed kids,,,job jobbed and thanks.

Cheers

Maggot

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