Nav standards Flashcards
(122 cards)
1
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What is the purpose of the Cutter Safe to Sail instruction?
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Establishes minimum criteria for each cutter class to be used by OPCON, CO/OIC’s and mission support elements in risk management and operational readiness decisions.
2
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Nav standards- How many days do you have to promulgate your Command navigation Standards?
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90 days
3
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electronic chart is considered currently corrected if it has been corrected within SINS I package?
SINS II package?
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A. last six months
B. 30 days within last approved update, but does not exceed 120 days.
4
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What is the Approved Electronic Chart hierarchy based on data accuracy?
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- Official ENC/USACE IENC
- NGA DNC
- Official RNC
- Commercial vector chart
- Commercial raster chart
5
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What is set?
What is drift?
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The direction your vessel is getting moved by external force away from intended track.
The speed at which your vessel is moving away from its intended track.
6
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what is your definition of Seaman’s eye for Boats? For Cutters?
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- (Boats) Seaman’s eye is extensive knowledge of the local area to include aids to navigation, terrestrial landmarks, and depth contours.
- cutters, seaman’s eye can correlate what is being displayed on Enav systems with what is being observed visually.
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Promulgate Command Navigation Standards within ? of assuming command. Prior Navigation Standards remain in effect until superseded.
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90 days
8
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what are the three modes of navigation?
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Automated plotting = Installed Electronic Navigation (primary means of nav) Automatic positioning input.
Manual plotting= Paper used if ENAV fails Manual input
(Boats) Seaman’s Eye= Navigation based on extensive knowledge of local ATON, terrestrial landmarks, and depth contours.
9
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What’s the process of fixing a vessels position?
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use fix or terrestrial landmarks to generate lines of position and radar ranges.
Then enter them into ENS or plot on a paper chart to determine
10
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electronic fix needs how many radar ranges?
visual fix needs how many common intersections?
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three or more radar ranges or combination of visual or electronic.
visual is three of more LOP’s at a common point.
11
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CG Enav has 3 depth alarm hierarchy?
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Danger= flash red- continuous audible alarm and flashes red. warning= flashing yellow - brief audible alarm and flashes yellow. caution= flashing yellow - flashes yellow. Caution alarms are normally advisory
12
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There are two general types of charts?
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Vector and Raster
13
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What does the CG use for charts?
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- Vector charts- are points, line and data that represent real world objects.
- Raster are scanned image of a chart.
14
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Corrected charts for cutters and boats?
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45 days for cutter
6 months or for boats/ you don’t have to keep updating the chart card as long as the master chart is updated on each boat.
15
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For units approved for paperless navigation, the following
boat navigation kit items will be required:
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1) Penlight with red lens (QTY: 1EA).
2) Stopwatch with second hand or digital (QTY: 1EA).
3) Course and Leg Identifier for SAR (QTY: 1EA).
4) Marker (QTY: 1EA).
5) Notepad (QTY: 1EA).
6) #2 Pencil (QTY: as needed).
7) Pencil sharpener (QTY: 1EA).
16
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When determining set and drift:
If fix is three min + ?
If less than three min?
no fix then its .
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- determine set and drift at every fix.
- determine set and drift at every other fix
- an estimated position
17
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What is a Dead reckoning position?when plotting a DR how many shall you plot?
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Dr is a vessel or boats estimated position along a known track line.
at least two DRs
18
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Who must approve tracklines and principal navigation routes. On all charts used for navigation, crews must verify information is identical on each chart to ensure navigation decision-makers have the same navigational information/picture
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Co/OIC
19
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when plotting paper charts outside of restricted water label with?
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true
magnetic
distance of track leg
20
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all track lines on electric charts when restricted water must display ?
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True course
mag course
21
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When correcting you use?
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CDMVT
can dead men vote twice at (add) elections
add easterly and subtract westerly
22
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When un-correcting use?
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TVMDC
true virtue makes dull company after(add) wedding
subtract easterly add westerly
23
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If NTMs/LNMs have been issued past the manufacturer’s electronic chart base date, then who can approve?
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CO/OICs can authorize use of SINS as a primary means of navigation if a currently corrected and prepared paper chart is immediately available (out and ready)
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Fixes- OIC Nav standards state when using three LOP’s are not simultaneously available you should advance?
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- previous LOP’s to a common time to create a running fix.
- Do not erase a fix, take another fix.
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When three LOPs are not simultaneously available, what do you do?
advance previous LOPs to a common time to create a running fix.
26
Set and Drift. eNav systems have two ways to calculate set and drift?
Computed and Ordered
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SINS does not provide accurately update the electronic chart display manually. If NTMs/LNMs have been issued past the manufacturer’s electronic chart base date, then who can approve the usage of primary means of NAV?
CO/OICs can authorize use of SINS as a primary means of navigation if a currently corrected and prepared paper chart is immediately available (out and ready)
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Cutter logs and records shall be maintained Ex: Getting U/w, entering port/restricted waters for how long?
from 90 days to 30 days
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What are some specifics you are going to input in your Navigation brief?
Navigational Draft.
b. Length overall.
c. Vessel Beam.
d. Line handling commands.
e. Standard Helm commands.
f. Masthead height (fixed and unfixed.
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Command Navigation Standards must define applicable navigational zones/areas, associated with cutters?
Cutters:
(1) Shoal Water.
(2) Rest Waters
(3) Coastal waters
(4) Open Ocean.
(5) Piloting waters
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Command Navigation Standards must define applicable navigational zones/areas,
(Cutter boats.)
Boats:
(1) Shoal Water.
(2) Rest Waters
(3) Coastal Waters.
(4) Open Ocean.
(5) Principle Nav Routes, including special training areas
(6) AOR Key Waypoints.
(7) While in sight- Due care to monitor Nav zones and proximity to navigational hazards.
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Each course leg must have?
Magnetic, True and distance
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What is ARPA
automatic radar plotting aid, its used to acquire contacts on your radar.
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What is the swing circle?
radius equal to length of the vessel added to the length of anchor chain released.
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The Drag Circle,
radius equal to the distance from the hawse-pipe to radar antenna, or GPS antenna, added to the length of the anchor line released.
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What is an electronic, visual, and estimated fix look like?
Radar- triangle
Visual- circle
both- square
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What is your responsibilities as the OIC?
Cutters/ Boats
1. Change nav standards within 90 days.
2. Ensure provisions of this manual.
3. Ensure local operating doctrines match all TTP's, and CG TTP to the maximum extent feasible.
4. Assign, certify and train Navigation personal.
5. Designate a navigator, UW ood or Chief. Shore units don't need a Nav Petty officer.
6. Ensure Nav team is trained. Ensure boat crews are Nav trained.
BOATS (only)
7. Proficiency in precision anchoring
8. Proficiency in precision celestial NAV
9. Make sure a secondary CIC is available
10. Incorporate Risk Management
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For units underway and not able to receive charts in a timely manner, paper charts are considered currently corrected if ?
the chart is corrected up to the latest LNM and NTM. The unit should obtain the most current edition as soon as possible.
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Who updates Coast Pilots?
NOAA updates Coast Pilots weekly and posts the updates along with a complete edition containing all applicable corrections.
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What does check the line mean?
Hold heavy tension on the specified line but render it as necessary to prevent parting the line.
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What does Surge the line mean?
Hold moderate tension on a line but render it enough to permit movement of the ship.
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What is standard full rudder?
Full rudder is normally the amount required for reduced tactical diameter.
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What is standard rudder?
amount required to turn the ship on its standard tactical diameter.
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In restricted water, compare the primary positioning source
to a backup positioning source at least every third fix.
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Fixes shall not exceed one hour on a cutter
30 min for small boats
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when piloting in restricted waters
- fixes shall be at least every 15 minutes
| - Open ocean shall be at least 30 min fixes
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in order to find true bearing to an object you must?
- Add the relative bearing + the ships heading.
- bearing to object is 090
- ships heading 300
300+90 = 390 - 360 = 030
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E-Nav systems has two ways to calculate set and drift?
Computed and Ordered
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What does the Navigational evaluator do?
a. coordinate the actions of the bride nav team
b. use all nav equipment to ensure safe passage
c. reports to the Conn
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What is your Command Navigational Standards requirement for Cutter, Cutter Boat and Boats?
2. Identify Voyage Planning Requirements
a. identify navigational information
b. define navigational zone/areas
c. Identify fix intervals
d. Provide guidance for route planning
e. Additional navigational requirements
f. Identify charts and pubs preparations(CB not required)
1. General (CB not required)
2. Electronic
3. Paper (CB not required)
g. identify required brief items
h. verify essential systems are ready for navigation
i. specify how to set appropriate watch station manning levels
j. how to appropriate nav mode
k. how to enable appropriate sensors and systems alarms.
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Definition of seamans eye for boat and cutter?
boat- Coxswains must maintain the situational awareness of the boats position.
Cutter- correlate what's being displayed on enav systems with what is being observed visually.
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Why don't we use Raster charts?
because its merely a scanned image of a chart.
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who produces and issues DNC's for use outside of us waters? Inland?
NGA- national geospatial agency
| Inland = NOAA
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What is a electronic fix?
common intersection of three or more radar ranges, or combination of visual LOPs and radar ranges.
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What is a visual fix?
combination of three or more lines of position at a common point obtained from simultaneous observation.
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what is a running fix?
Used when limited objects are available for taking LOP's and the vessel remains on a consistent course?
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What are the six rules for dead reckoning?
1. every hour on the hour
2. course change
3. speed change
4. after each fix or running fix
5. when obtaining a single line of position
6. Plot a new course line from each fix or running fix.
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What if enav fails, what other source of plotting is available?
In the event of a failure of a required input to a boat’s electronic navigation system, positions from installed positioning receivers can be plotted on a paper chart
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What if the radar fails?
boat coxswains, should obtain and plot radar ranges on paper charts to the extent possible based on the platform use?
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When unable to take a fix or maintain an active plot of a boats position during transit, what can boat coxswains use?
danger bearings and soundings assist the boat with safe navigation.
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What is a navigational draft?
depth of water that serves as the threshold for safe operations, determined by OIC.
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What is 731?
What is 751?
What is 761?
Boat forces
Cutter forces
electronic navigation capabilities for all units
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what are the (new) two modes of navigation?
1. Automated Plotting- Enav system, with automatic positioning system, used as primary means of navigation.
2. Manual Plotting- Paper charting used as primary means of navigation, due to Enav failure.
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What is Seaman's Eye?
is defined as navigation based on an extensive knowledge of the local area to include aton, terrestrial landmarks, and depth contours.
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What does Seamans eye mean for boats?
CG boat coxn's as a primary method of boat navigation and to maintain situational awareness of the boat's position.
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What does Seamans eye mean for cutters?
correlate with what is being displayed on Enav systems with what is being observed visually.0
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What is an Electronic fix? Triangle
1. Lat and Long provided by installed positioning equipment.
| 2. Common intersection of 3 or more radar ranges or combination of visual LOP's and radar ranges.
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What is a running fix?
Used when limited objects are available for taking LOP's and the vessel remains on a constant course.
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What do you use to verify your position?
1. radar/chart matching involves verifying the vessel/boats position with the installed eNav system an the radar to match features that appear on both.
2. use of fathometer to match the observed depth with charted depth is also a verification.
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What is set and drift?
Cumulative effect of wind, sea, and current on a vessels movement through the water.
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What is Advance?
distance along the vessel's current track it will travel during a turn.
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What is Transfer?
distance perpendicular, or the slide, a vessel will experience as it travels through a turn.
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If installed eNav fails, what is your backup to safe navigation?
1. Manual plotting
2. Use of radar ranges,
3. Use of danger ranges and Soundings
4. Seaman's Eye
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What are the three classifications of electronic Navigation system?
Display Base, Standard Display, All other Information
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What are the only two DGPS corrections allowable by the CG?
NDGPS and WAAS are the only GPS corrections currently authorized for the CG in restricted waters.
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What are the requirements for correcting charts?
A portfolio is now kept on board showing all the updated corrections on the master chart.
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What is Voyage planning?
Voyage planning encompasses the development of long and short-term plans as well as contingency plans for a particular transit.
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According the Voyage planning the OIC must add the following requirements to the Navigational Standards?
1. Nav draft
2. Safety contour
3. shallow contour
4. safety depth
5. Length overall
6. vessel beam
7. Masthead height
8. Unclassified tactical data
9. Full load draft
10. Height of bridge above the waterline
11. location of GPS antenna
12. Distance from hawespipe to alidade.
13. distance from hawsepipe to GPS
14. Distance from hawsepipe to stern
15. Distance from radar antenna to hawsepipe
16. GPS antenna to stern
17. radar antenna to stern
18. Line handling
19. Standard helm commands
20. Standard engine order commands.
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Command Navigation Standards must define applicable navigational zones/areas for boats?
a. Shoal Water.
b. Restricted Waters.
c. Coastal Waters.
d. Open Ocean.
e. Approved Navigation Routes.
f. AOR Key Waypoints.
g. AOR Key Areas.
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Deliberate GPS disruption- What is Jamming?
when a satellite position system's signal is blocked and a precise position is unable to be obtained.
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What is spoofing a satellite?
signal is altered with the objective to change the vessel's course.
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Identifying a fix interval shall not exceed?
One hour with OIC permission.
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Route planning shall include what three things/
1. Updated LNM and NTM in the eNav update
2. OIC approved track lines
3. Max allowable cross track error along each route/track leg.
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General pubs and chart preparations requirements are?
1. Conduct annual review of chart and pub holdings
2. Maintain an updated electronic chart portfolio
3. Prior to getting u/w, ensure all ready charts and pubs are corrected and on-board.
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eNav chart preparations shall have?
1. True and Magnetic
2. Navigator makes sure all available updates and precautions for the route or area are acct for.
3. Depth contours function to highlight shoal water or a more conservative safety depth contour.
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OIC approved tracklines on ready charts for restricted waters transits with the following:
(a) True Course (only required for vessels fitted with a gyrocompass).
(b) Magnetic Course.
(c) Distance of each track leg.
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Navigation briefs shall be conducted prior to?
1. Getting U/w
2. Entering port
3. Prior to entering restricted waters.
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What are a few Items you will add in your Navigation brief?
1. Assign nav team positions.
2. Charts and intended tracks to be used.
3. Restricted, prohibited, and cautionary areas
4. Max deviation from track line
5. Planned speed of advance and max safe speed.
6. chart shifts
7. Demarcation line crossings
8. Ais mode
9. Nav equipment status
10. eNav backup
11. GPS status
12. IALA B buoy system
13. Environment
14. VTS
15. Hazards to Nav
16. Risk assessment
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Coast Guard has contracted to provide updated electronic charts for SINS-II equipped cutter and cutter boats?
1. every six months
2. In the event that SINS electronic charts are out of date (longer than six months old) CO/OICs must specifically address and authorized use of SINS as primary means of navigation.
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the use of cell phones/texting/mobile devices and
| phone/device applications aboard boats is prohibited without permission of the Coxswain;
granted only on a case by case basis
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Who is prohibited from using a cell phone?
Helmsman
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Captain’s Night Orders?
1. They include such items as courses and speeds to
maintain throughout the night, expected sightings, engineering data, the tactical situation, and supplementary orders to the OOD.
2. Maintain these orders locally for three years after the date of the final entry, and then destroy them.
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If your installed Enav system fails what are your back-up methods?
1. Manual plotting on paper charts
2. Second radar ranges and Ebl's can be inputted into, if the boat allows you to manually input installed enav radar ranges then this is the way.
3. Danger ranges are used- when unable to take a fix or maintain an active plot of a boat’s position during a transit, boat coxswains can use danger ranges and soundings to assist with safe boat navigation(can help estimate a boat’s position relative to known hazards or the boundaries of a navigational channel.
4. Seamans's eye is next.
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Corrected paper chart is
not required for restricted
waters navigation if used
only as a
temporary response to an eNav failure.
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Paper charts are updated on boats and Cutters every six months. OIC may authorize the use of SINS as primary means of nav if
a updated paper chart is onboard.
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What does it mean to leave no one behind?
No goal is met unless it is met for everyone
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What Volume of the Coast Pilot is you region?
Coast Pilot 6 Great Lakes
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Who publishes the Coast pilot, and how many series of books are there?
NOAA publishes Ten volumes on the importance of weather, climate, ice conditions, tides, water levels currents, landmarks.
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What is a spoiled area?
purpose of depositing dredged material
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Local Notices to Mariners are issued by each
Coast
Guard District Commander for the waters under their
jurisdiction.
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U.S. Notice to Mariners, published weekly by the
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, are prepared
| jointly with NOAA and the Coast Guard.
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Broadcast Notices to Mariners are made by the
Coast Guard to report deficiencies and important changes in aids to navigation
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Special Notice to Mariners is an annual
| publication containing important information for mariners on a variety of subjects which supplements information
not usually found on charts and in navigational publications.
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Navigation Rules, International-Inland, Rules 6, 7,
| 8, and 19
apply to the use of radar.
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who is the primary source for paper charts?
Defense logistics agency
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Coast Guard units are not authorized to produce their own POD?
Print On Demand charts for navigation.
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Bearing book recorder is used during manual plotting which is bearing book #
3530/2
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GPS and WAAS. Units must report degradations, outages, and other incidents or anomalies to the Navigation Center via the GPS Problem Worksheet located at
NAVCEN
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How many chapters and pages are in the Navigational standards 3530.2F?
91 pages and 6 chapters
1. command responsibilities
2. nav fundamentals
3. cutter nav requirements
4. shore base boat requirements
5. command nav standards content
6. completely paperless chart navigation.
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Paper charts should be manually what? Where is the record update located on the chart?
1. Plotted on a chart
| 2. Mariner's cross
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when do you use a running fix?
when a limited amount of objects are available for taking LOP and vessel remains on constant course.
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What are the four items included in the command navigational standards
Both characteristics
crew Manning requirements
environmental limitations
and operating parameters other navigational requirements
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What methods are used to verify your vessels position?
Installed Enav and Radar to match positions
| or Charted depth.
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Additional Nav requirements include?
a. Unique operations
b. Speed management ops
c. cell phone ops
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Command Navigation Standards Content Requirements. The Command Navigation Standards must address the items below
1. Identify Command Navigation Standards Familiarization Requirements
2. Identify Voyage Planning Requirements
3. Identify Voyage Monitoring Requirements
4. Identify Electronic Navigation Requirements
5. Identify Paper Chart Navigation Requirements
6. Identify Navigation Log/Checklists Requirements
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Boat Crew Briefs. Briefs are a critical element of the navigational planning process and ensure safe navigation of Coast Guard boats.
1. Review of Voyage Plan
2. Assignment of crew positions.
3. Safe speed for mission and conditions.
4. Identification of hazards to navigation.
5. Anticipated vessel traffic.
6. Environmental considerations including tides, currents, weather (e.g., winds, precipitation, visibility), and environmentally sensitive sea areas (e.g., marine sanctuaries).
7. AIS mode to be used (e.g., normal, receive only, encrypted, etc.). Method and date of most recent AIS vessel information verification for boats. Ensure encrypted AIS key is current per Chapter 5 D.6 of Reference (l).
8. Conduct risk assessments in accordance with Reference (g).
9. Conduct a post-operations debrief to evaluate and recognize performance.
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Navigation PO must be?
Experience uw ood and take senior bridge management
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NAV standards requires co/oic of a cutter to publish command navigation standards what is required to be in those NAV standards
Navigational draft
definition of shoal water
command definition of NAV zones standard fix intervals in each zone standard symbols, line handling commands, cutter small boat now nav, helm commands, special sea detail,anchoring, mooring bill
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Navigational draft?
is defined as a depth of water that serves as a threshold for safe operations, as determined by the OIC.
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crews must be ready to use other means to safely navigate in case the primary electronic
navigation (ENAV) system fails. Alternate navigation methods boat crews may use include
use of ?
radar ranges, danger ranges, soundings, and seaman’s eye.
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Electronic charts are considered corrected when:
a. SINS I:
b. SINS II:
a. corrected within the last six months.
| b. corrected within 30 days of the last approved update and does not exceed 120 days from previous update.
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The following must be completed prior to getting approval for paperless charts?
a. update unit nav standards
b. evaluate the crew in primary and secondary enav failure.
c. develop a master ENC portfolio with specific AOR
d. develop a weekly update portfolio updating ENC using LNM, BNM, and light list corrections.
e. establish voyage plan using ENC for transiting outside and inside of the AOR.
