Now This Is Funny

[JarHed]

Hey SD

Yeah, learned to read a map, run a bearing with a compass and the stars. If you're out in the woods and your sat nav goes offline or dies, you're f**ked. It's always the same, stick to the basics.Use your eyes and your brain. Best navigator there is.

Hell aircraft carriers still use a board with airplanes on it that they move around. Why? in case the computers crash.

Sorry, for getting off thread, :D

Jar

 

[Squaddiedave]

To right JarHed (Jar?)

Silva compass doesn't run out of batteries! Eye and brain, or as Maprics teach, DDCRAPS!
Distance
Direction
Conventional signs
Relief
Alignment
Proximity
Shape!
Gotta love acronyms !

 

[Wagon]

You air types. You ever get to use a bubble sextant. I had about 5 nautical sextants on the ship. And 5 very nice Chronometers (I'm a time piece freak....don't know why) Thing is, I could never get the Navy to let me have a bubble sextant. You can only use the Nautical ones for stars at Nautical Twilight. So I was always thinking the bubble had the advantage because of the false horizon thingy and then you can just toss your height correction. Shoot stars all night long.

Am I speaking greek......or am I misinformed. Been a long time

 

[Wagon]

And back on thread with a joke.

There was a pilot flying a small single engine charter plane, with a couple of very important executives on board. He was coming into the Seattle airport through thick fog with less than 10 miles visibility when his instruments went out.
He began circling around looking for a landmark. Finally, a small opening in the fog appears and he sees a tall building with a guy working alone on the fifth floor. He banks the plane around, rolls down the window and shouts to the guy, “Hey where am I?”
The man replies, “You’re in an airplane.” The pilot rolls up the window, executes a 275 degree turn and proceeds to perform a perfect blind landing on the airport runway 5 miles away.
Just as the plane stops, so does the engine as the fuel has run out. The passengers are amazed and one asks how he did it.
“Quite easy,” replies the pilot, “I asked the guy in that building a simple question. The answer he gave me was 100 percent correct but absolutely useless, therefore, that must be Microsoft’s support office and from there the airport is just five miles due East.”