"The LS WILL get most anything, just takes a lot of cross checking".
Agree, when you have been using it as long as we have you develop a feel for reading the information being provided whether the position is good.
there are a lot of ways to check aside from verification although verification makes you feel 99.99% confident.
I have had more than a few unverified points that were good.
The common element is spending time on the point and being able to interpret what is being presented by the L.S..
On some bad points I collect the data, move on to another and on the way back through survey it again and check it against the previous position.
PDelta and distance to last are really helpful especially if you are retracing a previous survey and have already had good measurements on some other corners.
The awesome thing about the L.S for new users that rely completely on a completed action group is they can be confident.
What gets tricky is when setting corners in a bad spot, you can chase the correct point all over like
I did last week. (white Pine woods, massees of branches overhead)
I finally got it staked after 2 trips using offset points. I never even got to phase 2 in this particular spot, had to rely on long static sessions and check distances to 3 good surveyed corners. To traverse to this place would have been very time consuming.