Always carry a physical map and know how to use it, particularly when in new and remote areas.
You can't trust your life to Gulag Maps and even specific GPS navigation devices can stop working or be wrong. Plan out your route and rely on mapping services for basic navigation only.
#Maps #travel
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-21/google-maps-tourists-lost-in-remote-area/103492986
Good advice.
In Germany you could get knocked out and dumped in the woods somewhere - walk any direction and within an hour you’ve found civilisation. That doesn’t work in Australia, you are likely to die if you get lost out bush here and tourists regularly have no clue of this.
As you know, here in Aus it's not too hard to get remote an hour out of a city and lack of water in most of the country is a big issue.
Gulag maps 😂😂😂
Can't take credit for the Gulag part, heard google referred to as that many times.
Always a map and compass. Get your maps laminated, that way they wont fall apart when wet and you can write notes with a grease pencil or erasable marker directly onto the map.
Check the local magnetic declination of the area before setting out, or your compass readings could be off. Maps usually print declination change per year and you can calc based on that.
If you want to be crazy prepared, visit https://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/AltAz
print out sun azimuth information , laminate it, keep it on your person for the trip. It will tell you which direction the sun is for any given hour of the day.
Check which direction the prevailing wind is for the area, and whether aircraft is likely to be headed in a predictable direction.
