Navigation and Passage Planning for Watchkeeping Officers: Position Fixing, Tides, ECDIS, Squat and Pilotage with 280 Practice Questions - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

Passage planning is where good navigation is decided. Sixteen chapters take a watchkeeping officer through the areas that examiners and shipboard practice keep returning to, and test each one with questions written the way they are actually asked.

Charts and datums and the discipline of position, position fixing and the honest fix, compass error with variation deviation and the gyro, tides and the working calculation, tidal streams and the course to steer, passage planning from appraisal to execution, ECDIS discipline, ocean passages and routeing and weather, squat and under-keel clearance in shallow water, pilotage and VTS and the bridge team, restricted visibility and radar navigation, and the navigational watch with its handover and record.

WHAT IS INSIDE

280 multiple-choice questions: 240 chapter questions plus a 40-question practice final examination

Complete answer keys for both, with 72 explained answers for the ones that most often catch people out

4 worked passage scenarios

8 clear technical diagrams

Examination preparation, a revision checklist built from every chapter, and chapters on records and on keeping competence current

A 15-term glossary

WHO IT IS FOR

Deck cadets and officers preparing for oral and written examinations, and serving watchkeepers who want the reasoning behind the procedures rather than the procedures alone.

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