Piloting (P)
This first part studies
inland and coastal navigation. Its focus is on the fundamentals of
piloting -- keeping track of a boat's movements, determining its
position at any time and laying a course to a planned destination:
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- Charts and their use
- Aids to navigation
- The mariner's compass
- Variation and deviation of the compass
- Plotting and steering courses
- Dead reckoning
- Plotting and labeling charts
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Advanced Piloting (AP)
This final part of the
inland and coastal navigation series continues with an emphasis on the
use of modern electronic navigation systems and other advanced
techniques for finding position:
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- Tides and currents and their effect on piloting
- Finding position using bearings and angles
- Simple use of the mariner's sextant
- Electronic navigation: Radar, Loran, GPS, etc.
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