5
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Walking a given bearing or direction of travel
When the bearing is known, simply look at compass card(12)and turn your body until you can read the known
bearing on the dial. The sighting line then intersects the object.
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Orienting the map
For more complicated operations to be camied out on the topographic map, it is necessary to orientate the
geographic north of the map with that magnetic of the earth .
Place the compass on the map.Align the centimeter-marked line(5) with that meridian closest to your position,so that
the upper lid (1) points to the north of the geographic map.
Meridians are parallel lines running from the upper to the lower part of the map .
Holding the compass in position ,rotate the map until the north-seeking needle(11) on the dial coincides with the
index line of the Glow-in-the Dark Circle(10) .
The map is now oriented with the ground.The magnetic declination has however ,not been taken into account .
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Determining the direction of travel on the map
a) After you aligned you map with the north pole(the description in point 6）,draw a line on the map starting from you
position to your final destination.
b) Place the compass on the map with one contact edge along the line which is running from your own position to
the objective .the compass lid indicates the direction of the objective.
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