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Advanced Piloting Course Prerequisite:
Piloting Course
You will learn advanced coastal
navigation principles to enable you to know, at all
times, where you are. The vessel's position can be
determined by using landmarks and aids to navigation
- allowing for current, leeway, tides and tidal
currents.
This course covers charts,
compass, steering and timing a course, tides and
tidal currents, effects of current and leeway,
piloting a course, time-speed-distance, methods of
determining position, fixes, running fixes, standing
clear of danger, aids to navigation, electronic aids
and introduction to the sextant.
Duration: 13 weeks
Course kit
includes Student Notes; Homework Folder; AP Training
Chart; Chart No. 1; D.O.T. Tides in Canadian
Waters.
Introduction
This course is regarded by
Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons as one of three
basic courses essential to the small-boat operator
who wishes to be thoroughly knowledgeable and
competent. The Seamanship courses treat some of the
less tangible aspects of boat handling and permit
the use of considerable judgment, leaving room for
opinion. In Advanced Piloting, there is but little
room for opinion. The solution is usually either
right or wrong.
Advanced Piloting covers only a
very few subjects. It treats them at a
semi-professional level, and students who
conscientiously complete the course can hold their
own, as to piloting, with many professionals. AP is
not an easy course, particularly for those who are
not familiar with algebra and geometry.
Nevertheless, do not let the lack of mathematical
knowledge be a deterrent - the notes plus the
instructor can see you through.
Course Outline
- Charts
- Care of Charts
- Latitude and Longitude
- Chart Projections
- Chart Scale
- Symbols and
Abbreviations used on charts
- Compass
- The Magnetic Compass
- Removal of Gross
Deviation
- Swinging the Compass
- Deviation Table
- Variation
- Gyro and Fluxgate
Compasses
- Piloting, Steering and
Timing a Course
- Plotting and Labelling
- Dead Reckoning
- The Speed Curve
- Tides and Tidal Currents
- Tides
- Tidal Datum
- Tide Tables
- Tidal Currents
- Current Tables
- Effects of Current and
Leeway
- Vectors
- Current Effects
- Leeway
- Estimated Positions
- Current Determination
- Positioning I
- Line of Position
- Two Bearing Fix
- Three Bearing Fix
- Positioning II
- Circular Line of
Position
- Determining Distance
Off
- Position by Horizontal
Sextant Angles
- Distance to the
Horizon
- Running Fixes
- Relative Bearings
- Double the Angle on
the Bow
- Bow and Beam Bearings
- Predicting Distance
Off
- Advancing a Line of
Position
- Advancing a Circle of
Position
- Current Effects on
Positioning Techniques
- Standing Clear of Danger
- Pre-Computed Danger
Angles
- Danger Bearing
- Ranges and Sectors
- Line of Soundings
- Collision Bearings
- Aids to Navigation and
Sound Signals
- Chart Symbols and
Abbreviations
- Aids to Navigation
Protection Regulations
- Cautions in the Use of
Aids to Navigation
- Shore-based Aids to
Navigation
- Buoys
- The Canadian Buoyage
System
- Fog Signals
- Electronic Aids
- Other Buoyage Systems
- Electronic Aids
- Radio beacons and
Radio Direction Finders
- Depth Sounders
- Radiotelephone
- Loran-C
- Radar
- Satellite Navigation
Systems
- The Sextant: Theory,
Adjustments, and Practical Sextant Work
- Construction
- Use of the Sextant
- Reading the Sextant
- Practical Sextant Work
- Junior Navigator Sight
Requirements
- Cruise of the "M.V. Aypee"
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