Jdsk wrote:
You can get lost with any navigation tool with which you're not familiar... lichen on trees, DR, trip notes, wave angles, maps, compasses, star heights, LORAN, VOR, GPS...
Jonathan
A friend of mine, a soldier at the time, was put to steering a landing craft (I think) at night. Rather than peer at the compass, he found it easier to pick a star in the right position, and steer on that. He was, it seems, unaware of the planet's rotation....