5Ds Navigation Strategy and DDCRAPS Card

5Ds Navigation Strategy and DDCRAPS card

If you don’t know your location it can be near impossible to navigate to your next destination, so we have combined the best of two worlds – Military & The Duke of Edinburgh acronyms to create this great aide memoire.

We use and teach both acronyms in combination, they are the basis of all safe and competent navigation.

• 5D Navigation strategy, used in DofE, to determine your next leg of navigation
• DDCRAPS is a military acronym used to accurately determine your location