3. Advanced Piloting
This all-new course continues to build coastal and inland navigation skill, allowing the student to take on more challenging conditions - unfamiliar waters, limited visibility, and extended cruises. GPS is embraced as a primary navigation tool while adding radar, chartplotters, and other electronic navigation tools. As with Piloting, the course includes many in-class exercises, advancing the student's skills through hands-on practice and learning. Topics covered include:
Review of skills learned in Piloting
Advanced positioning techniques such as advancing a line of position
Other electronics: radar, depth sounders, autopilots, chartplotters, etc.
Hazard avoidance techniques using electronics (e.g., "keep out" zones in GPS)
Collision avoidance using radar and GPS
Working with tides: clearances, depth, effects of current
Piloting with wind and currents
The "Seaman's Eye" - simple skills for checking that one is on course
Seven Hills, Ohio 44131
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The next Advanced Piloting Course begins:
Mar 11, 2019 @ 7:00pm
6195 Carlyle Drive