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

Navigation and Passage Planning for Watchkeeping Officers (Paperback)

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. 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. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9798190323498

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