Advanced Piloting
Advanced Piloting covers only a few topics, but treats them at a
semi-professional level. This newly revised course is not easy and students who conscientiously complete
it can hold their own, in piloting, with many professionals.
Course Outline
1. Charts
- Care of Charts
- Latitude and Longitude
- Chart Projections
- Mercator
- Polyconic
- Gnomic
- Chart Scale
- Use of Charts
- IALA Maritime Buoyage System
2. Compass
- Compass Error
- Deviation Table
- Determining Deviation
- Sailing Magnetic Tracks
- Hand-Bearing Compass Method
- Distant Object Method
- Crossing a Range
- Construction of a Deviation Table
- Interpolation in the Table
- The Pelorus and Its Use
- Gyro Compass
- Fluxgate Compass
3. Courses, Bearings and Positions
- Labelling
- Equipment
- Track and Course Line
- Bearings
- Ranges
- Circles of Position
- Horizontal Angles
- Construction Lines
- Positions
- Plotting
- Waypoints
- Dead Reckoning
- Errors
- The Speed Curve
- Lines of Position
- Ranges
- Bearings
- Slew of the Compass and Pelorus
- Circles of Position
- Measuring Horisontal and Vertical Angles
- Methods of Deternmining Distance
- Fixes
- Fixes by Ranges and Bearings
- Fixes by Circles of Postion
- Fixes Using Horizontal Sextant Angles
- Distances to Horizon
- Standing Clear of Danger
- Pre-Computed Danger Angles
- Danger Bearing
- Ranges
- Sectors
- Line of Soundings
- Collision Bearings
4. Electronic Navigation
- Types of Equipment
- Applications
- Waypoint Navigation
- GPS Navigation
- NavStar/GPS System
- System Operations
- Errors
- Differential GPS
- Computer Output and Display
- Advantages ans Disadvantages
- Loran-C
- System Description
- Chain Selection
- LORAN Receivers
- Signal Range
- Accuracy
- Corrections
- Computer Output and Display
- Interfacing iwth Other Navigational Equipment
- Installation
- Advantages ans Disadvantages
- Radar
- Range Markers
- Plotting Radar Information
- Advantages of Radar
- Limitations of Radar
- Passive Radar Reflectors
- Licensing and Servicing
- Radar Interpretations
- Depth Sounders
- Standard Broadcast Receivers
- Other Electronic Equipment
- Overboard
- Back to Basics
5. Effects of Current and Leeway
- Vectors
- Current Effects
- To Determine and Estimated Position
- To Determine Course to steer and Speed of Advance
- To Determine Current Set and Drift from a Fix
- Leeway
- Plotting Relative Bearings
- Estimated Positions
- Current Determination
6. Running Fixes
- Double the Angle on the Bow
- Bow and Beam Bearings
- Predicting Distance Off
- Seven-tenths Rule
- 26.5 and 45 deg Rule
- Advancing a Line of Position
- Advancing a Straight LOP
- Advancing a Circle of Postion
- Lines of Position: Small Boats
- Plotting a Running Fix with Known Current
- Current Effects on Other Positioning Techniques
7. Tides and Tidal Currents
- Causes of Tides
- Datum, Measurement, and Tides
- Tide Tables
- Canadian Tide Tables
- US Tide Tables
- Tidal Currents
- Canadian Current Tables
- Current Solutions
- Duration of Slack
- Velocity of Current at Any Time
- US Current Tables
Students should retain the following publications from their previous Boating and Piloting courses:
- "Canadian Coast Guard Safe Boating Guide"
- "Collision Regulations"
- "Chart #1 - Symbols, Abbreviations and Terms"
- "The Canadian Aids to Navigation System"
Additionally, students need to use the CPS Course Plotter or parallel rules, dividers,
compasses, a straight edge and a protractor.
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Last Updated: 08 August 2001