GPS or digital compass?

[Mee-n-Mac]

Originally Posted by Phantom

.... A final thought -- if you can't get the pass/color scheme down in your head ........ many of us use a "catch phrase" to remember ...... also, many years ago we use to have a homemade sticker taped below the compass -- with simply N E in Black letters & SW in Red letters.

And I'll add that old trick/phrase, remember that BEN is your friend. That is for a Black tipped marker stay East or North. Thus the red tipped is the opposite, stay West or South. There are a few places where this isn't fully adequate but for the most part it works.