[USPS Ensign]
[BPS Burgee] Birmingham Power Squadron [BPS Burgee]
2222 on Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Electronic Navigation (Piloting) Course Description

The newly updated and totally rewritten Piloting has arrived! A totally new approach to teaching piloting is ready for instruction to USPS classes. The new approach not only incorporates the latest information on GPS into the piloting process, but uses up-to-date computer graphics to make both teaching and learning easier. The new course, along with its soon to be added companion Advanced Piloting, incorporates the use of GPS while retaining the traditional material on charting, dead reckoning, and a host of other piloting skills. The new courses also demonstrate new material on computer navigation and digital charting from the included digital charting CD, and provide a Student Guide with color graphics and a new 2004 text as a supporting reference.

This course is the first of a two-part program studying inland and coastal navigation. Its focus is on the fundamentals of piloting - keeping track of a boat's movements, determining one's position at any time and laying out courses to a planned destination.

 

       

Learn About:

  • Navigating with GPS
  • Charts and their use
  • Aids to navigation
  • The mariner's compass
  • Compass Variation and deviation
  • Plotting and steering courses
  • Dead reckoning
  • Plotting and labeling charts