Philip M. Smith

Terrestrial Navigation

A Primer for Deck Officers and Officer of the Watch Exams

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

From basic trigonometry and plane sailings plotting, right through to practice questions with answers, and even mock exam papers, this book will provide you with all the reference material you need in order to pass your exams.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 142
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 278g
• ISBN-13: 9781138674721
• ISBN-10: 1138674729
• Artikelnr.: 48820596

Autorenporträt

Philip M. Smith is a Senior Lecturer at Warsash Maritime Academy. After over 22 years at sea navigating, for the most part in a traditional way, he now teaches Officer of the Watch and Cadets Terrestrial Navigation.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Figures & Tables
About the author
Preface
Acknowledgements
Disclaimer
Chapter 1. UNITS & TERMINOLOGY.
1.1 Latitude.
1.2 Longitude.
1.3 Terrestrial Positions
1.4 Nautical Mile
1.5 Departure.
1.6 Basic Trigonometry.
1.7 Difference of Latitude.
1.8 Difference of Longitude
1.9 Courses & Direction.
1.10 Quadrantal Notation of Direction.
Chapter 2. PARALLEL SAILINGS.
Chapter 3. PLANE SAILINGS.
3.0 Plane Sailings
3.1 Departure.
3.2 Finding the Mean Latitude.
3.3 Top Tips for solving Plane Sailing Calculations.
Chapter 4. MERCATOR SAILINGS.
4.0 Mercator sailing
4.1 Latitude Scale distortion.
4.2 Meridional Parts.
4.3 Meridional Part Table.
4.4 Difference in Meridional Parts
4.5 Properties of the Mercator Chart.
4.6 Top Tips For solving Mercator Calculations
Chapter 5. GREAT CIRCLE SAILINGS.
5.0 Great Circle Sailings.
5.1 The Great Circle Route and the Spherical Triangles.
5.2 What is a Great Circle?
5.3 Great Circle Distance Calculation.
5.4 Great Circle Formula and Rules.
5.5 Great Circle Initial Course Calculation.
5.6 The Vertex.
5.7 Calculating the Longitude of Vertex. (Worked Example).
5.8 Calculating the Latitude of the Vertex.
5.9 Calculating the Initial Course, Distance and position of the
Vertex (Fully Worked Example).
5.10 Waypoints.
5.11 To Calculate the Positions of the Waypoints.
5.12 Creating the Passage Plan.
5.13 Calculating Position of Waypoints along a Track.
5.14 The Passage Plan Table of waypoints.
Chapter 6. COMPOSITE GREAT CIRCLES-
6.0 Composite Great Circles- Use of Napier's Rules.
6.1 Populating Napier's Cartwheel.
6.2 Composite Great Circle Formulae.
6.3 Compliments of Angles (Napiers Rules).
6.4 Departure along Limiting Parallel of latitude.
6.5 Calculating Initial Course.Course Angle A.
6.6 Positions of Vertex V1. (D. Long AtoV1).
6.7 Positions of Vertex V2. (D. Long BtoV2).
6.8 Finding Total Distance.
Chapter 7. ESTIMATING TIME OF ARRIVAL.
7.0 ETA's.
7.1 Standard Time Tables.
7.2 Calculation of Steaming Time.
7.3 To Calculate Speed Required.
7.4 Advancing & Retarding Ships' Clocks.
7.5 Crossing the International Date Line.
Chapter 8. TERRESTRIAL NAVIGATION TEST PAPERS
WORKED SOLUTIONS.
8.1 Paper 1 + worked solutions.
8.2 Paper 2 + worked solutions.
8.3 Paper 3 + worked solutions.
8.4 Paper 4 + worked solutions.
8.5 Paper 5 + worked solutions.
8.6 Paper 6 + worked solutions.
8.7 Paper 7 + worked solutions.
8.8 Paper 8 + worked solutions.
8.9 Paper 9 + worked solutions.
8.10 Paper 10 + worked solutions.
8.11 Paper 11 + worked solutions.
8.12 Paper 12 + worked solutions.
8.13 Paper 13 + worked solutions.
8.14 Paper 14 + worked solutions.
8.15 Paper 15 + worked solutions.
8.16 Paper 16 + worked solutions.
8.17 Paper 17 + worked solutions.
8.18 Paper 18 + worked solutions.
8.19 Paper 19 + worked solutions.
8.20 Paper 20 + worked solutions.
References
Appendix 1 NAVIGATIONAL FORMULA SHEET
Appendix 2 MERIDIONAL PARTS TABLES
Appendix 3 STANDARD TIME TABLES
INDEX