Learn land nav
on ground that
behaves like ground
Not a PDF. A working course. Drag a real protractor across a real grid, shoot an azimuth on a compass that clicks, plan a leg with a handrail and a backstop, then get graded in meters on how close you plotted. Sixteen modules, five phases, one training area generated from a terrain model — so the streams run where the contours say they should.
Buckner Ridge
One piece of ground, rendered fresh in your browser every time. Contours come from marching squares over a 16-meter sample grid. Streams come from a real D8 flow accumulation over the same surface, so drainage runs where the terrain says it should. Both scales draw the same ground at the correct contour interval — 20 meters at 1:50,000, 20 feet at 1:24,000.
Nothing here is a screenshot of a copyrighted sheet. All of it is generated.
- Grid zone
- 17S QE
- Extent
- 6,000 × 4,500 m
- High ground
- Hill 412 · QE 372 632
- Low ground
- 110 m
- Scales
- 1:50,000 and 1:24,000
Five phases. Sixteen modules.
Each one ends in something you do, not something you read. Progress and exam scores save in your browser.
Read the map
- How a map talks — colors, marginal information, layer study on a live sheet
- Scale — 1:50,000 against 1:24,000 on identical ground
- Contours and terrain — the ten features, drill mode, profile cutter
- Build your sheet — ordering a gridded sheet at both scales
Plot and measure
- MGRS: the grid — grid reader, plotting drill graded in meters
- The protractor — draggable GTA 05-02-012, wrong-scale error shown
- Distance and pace — pace count calculator, distance bench, bead counter
The compass
- Azimuths and the three norths — declination diagram, timed conversion drill
- The lensatic — anatomy, simulator, night mode with the 3° click bezel
- The orienteering compass — Suunto MC-2 with a working declination setting
Move
- Handrails and backstops — leg planner that scores your choices
- Time as a backstop — planning figures, stop-time rule, running clock
- Running the course — leg cards, box method, deliberate offset
Confirm and build
- Confirming with GPS — lat/long to MGRS, commit-then-confirm drill
- Design your own course — builder with point quality scoring, safety brief
- Final evaluation — 20-question written exam and a 5-point plotting practical
Reference
- Numbers to memorize
- Compass safety distances
- Thirty-term glossary
- Sources, cited to the doctrine
Things you use, not things you watch
Every one of these is live in the browser. Nothing is a video of someone else doing it.
Fourteen ninety-nine. Once.
Buy it on the store, then come back here and type the same email. That is the whole process — no account, no password, no app. Access does not expire.
Access questions
Which email do I type?
The exact one you used at checkout — the one your order confirmation landed in. Capitalization does not matter. If you checked out as a guest with a different address than your usual one, use the guest address.
I bought it and it says no purchase was found.
Almost always a second email address. Check your order confirmation and use the address it was sent to. Fresh orders can also take a minute to settle. If it still fails, reply to your order confirmation email with the order number and we will attach access by hand.
Do I need to type it every time?
No. Once you are in, this browser stays unlocked for 60 days, then asks once more. Use the same email on your phone and it unlocks there too.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes. The map, the protractor and both compasses are built for touch. A tablet or laptop is easier for the plotting drills, but nothing is desktop-only.
Does my progress save?
Yes, per browser. Module completion and exam scores are stored locally on the device you study on. Clearing site data clears progress — the course itself stays available.
Do I need internet while I study?
Only to load it. Everything after that runs in the browser — the terrain, the contours, the instruments, the grading. No server calls, no tracking.
What is it built on?
TC 3-25.26 Map Reading and Land Navigation and ATP 3-21.18 Foot Marches, plus the Suunto MC-2 guide and the NOAA magnetic field calculator for declination. The three figures the internet usually gets wrong — which protractor scale is inner, what a doctrinal pace is, and how far a degree of deliberate offset moves you — were checked against the source text.