This document discusses stadia tachymetry field practice and accuracy. It describes using stadia tachymetry to conduct topographic surveys in open areas with few hard levels. The document outlines sources of error in stadia distance and height measurements including errors from staff holding, reading intercepts, instrument constants, refraction, and vertical angles. Accuracy of distance is +/- 100mm at 20m and +/- 300mm at 150m, while height accuracy is within 0.01% of sighting distance when angles are less than 10 degrees.