At the risk of being a contrarian, I’m not sure anyone shooting an azimuth on a trek through the woods would or should be doing any kind of great circle. In the military we learned that since you naturally move to the right or to the left, shoot an azimuth to your tree or bush and alternate which way you circle around it. Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but if you are shooting an azimuth and moving in some sort of arc, depending on your distance, you could end up missing your mark. If the distance is great. You could miss by quite a bit. In a leaders course, that would fail you.
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