Navigation workbook 2nd Ed Ebook

ISBN : 978-1-86283-143-8
Published Date : 27 March 2014
Product Code : F06P
Format : Downloadable pdf lifetime licence
Price: $110.00
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Teachers Information
This is a workbook for schools who are implementing the Queensland Studies Authority Aquatics syllabus.
It is NOT designed or recommended for TAFE navigation or commercial courses
If you are using this book you need to download the following chart
https://www.wetpaper.com.au/files/Worksheets/Hillsborough_channel.pdf
Contents
Section 1 Introduction
Knowledge and experience
Fundamentals of navigation
History
Section 2 Pilotage
Cardinal marks
Isolated danger marks
Buoys, beacons and lighthouses
Special marks
Section 3 Navigation equipment
The magnetic compass
Use of the sextant
Chart room
The pelorus
Chronometer
The international date line
Section 4 Charts
The Earth
Charts
Latitude (Parallels)
Longitude (Meridians)
The mercator chart
An important chart feature - depth
Section 5 Chartwork
Nautical mile
Speed and distance
Plotting a course
Using parallel rules
Section 6 Magnetic effects
Variation Deviation Total error
Magnetic polarity reversals
Compass conversions
The compass rose
Section 7 Charting your course
Lines of position - LOP's
Section 8 Position Fixing
Single bearing fix
A transit
True bearing fix
Other methods of fixing position
Set and drift terms
Dead reckoning
Section 9 Radar and GPS
Radar
The Global Positioning System GPS
Waypoint navigation
Worksheets
Worksheet 1 Research and review
Worksheet 2 Library/internet research
Worksheet 3 Navigation markers
Worksheet 4 What day is it?
Worksheet 5 Magnetic fields
Worksheet 6 Using a hand bearing compass
Worksheet 7 Making a compass rose
Worksheet 8 Your local chart
Worksheet 9 Hypothetical Bay
Worksheet 10 Your own chart
Worksheet 11 Chart features
Worksheet 12 Latitude and longitude
Worksheet 13 Distance, speed and time
Worksheet 14 Compass conversions
Worksheet 15 LOP's
Worksheet 16 Compass courses
Worksheet 17 Chartwork
Worksheet 18 Position fixing
Worksheet 19 Laying off and plotting
Worksheet 20 Set and drift
Worksheet 21 Choosing an objective
Worksheet 22 Where are we?
Worksheet 23 Rule of twelfths