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Plotting Latitude & Longitude

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Content type: Step-by-step guides
Once a tool or technique has been demonstrated, step-by-step guides allow you to try your newly acquired skill. This unique approach lets you practice what you’ve learned with an instructor leading you by the hand. This is partially useful for the more complex chart work navigation techniques.

Taster content: Step-by-step – Plotting latitude & longitude
The task in this step-by-step guide is to find and plot the latitude & longitude of a position given to you by a friend, letting you know where they are. You’ll have to use your course plotter accurately to mark their position. At every stage, you can jump in and have a go at the task or watch it performed first. It’s up to you.

For this step-by-step, you will need the following: