| COMPASS
AND PACING RULES
-
Each member club may enter one contestant.
- The
compass course must be at least four open traverses (30-50 chains),
each with at least four segments. If more than one contestant uses
each traverse, they will start at ten (10)-minute intervals and will
be required to complete one traverse only.
- Contestants
will be allowed the use of a hand-type compass only. Declination will
be set at zero (0) degrees and a true north calibration point must
be provided.
- A traverse
must be traveled by each contestant only once. The contestant may
not, after beginning the course, return to the starting point.
- The
traverses are to be laid out by representatives of the judges with
methods equivalent to using a transit and steel tape. Field notes
will be kept and deposited with the Judges’ Committee before
the start of the contest.
- The
portion of each traverse to be traveled by each contestant will have
the same number of bearings, and lengths of each will be within one
chain of all others.
- *Winning
positions will be awarded to the contestants completing the traverse
with the highest relative precision ratio, computed as: traverse length/linear
error (measured)
- All
compass and pacing traverses will be in similar terrain and vegetative
type and avoid serious obstacles that affect the magnetic function
of the compass and/or the progress of the contestant.
- Hand
calculators may be used.
- Each
contestant must travel his/her entire traverse from start to finish
to be credited as having completed the course.
- Clothing
aids to the contestant, such as protective clothing or chaps, will
be allowed.
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