HNC/Ad Certificate Navigation Course Information Estimated Time: At your own pace Categories: Celestial Navigation, Chartwork, HNC/Ad Certificate Navigation, OOW Navigation, Radar Plotting, Sailings, Sailings Including Great Circle, Tides Course Instructor Philip Ashton Author HNC/Ad Certificate Navigation Monthly Membership £7.50 per month MEMBER PRICING HNC/Ad Certificate Navigation Introduction HNC/Ad Certificate Navigation Specifically designed for students preparing for HNC/Ad Celestial Navigation, Chartwork and Tides, Sailings, or for students wishing to regain knowledge before preparing for OOW SQA exams. Plane-Parallel-Mercator-Great Circle Parallels and Meridians D. Lat D. Long Course to Steer Parallel Sailing Speed, Distance and Time Plane Sailing Explained Plane Sailing Course and Distance Plane Sailing-finding final position The Daily Run ETA explained Mercator Sailing Explained Mercator Sailing Examples Great Circle and Vertex Vertex and Napier’s Wheel Explained Napier’s Wheel Great Circle Distance Method 1 Great Circle initial and final course method 1 Great Circle method 1-vertex between initial and final position Great Circle method 1-vertex before initial position Great Circle method 1-vertex after final position Great Circle method 1-sailing between Hemispheres Great Circle method 2-calculating distance Great Circle method 2-initial and final course Great Circle method 2-vertex between positions Great Circle method 2-vertex before initial position Great Circle method 2-vertex after final position Great Circle method 2-sailing between Hemispheres Composite Great Circle Sailing Gnomonic Charts Gnomonic Chart example Sailings example questions Sailings example questions 1- 13 sailings example 1 Sailings example 2 Sailings example 3 Sailings example 4 Sailings example 5 Sailings example 6 Sailings example 7 Sailings example 8 Sailings example 9 Sailings example 10 Sailings example 11 Sailings example 12 Sailings Example13 New Lesson Tides explained Tides theory Tide Levels sketch Heights sketch Heights sketch Sample calculations for height of Tide European Tide question explained Pacific tide question explained Tidal Stream Atlas Tidal Stream Tables Co-Tidal Charts Tides Example questions Example Questions 1-9 Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 Example 4 Example 5 Example 6 Example 7 Example 8 Example 9 Celestial Navigation The sextant Sextant errors Chronometer and Time Celestial Sphere Nautical Almanac Compass and Gyro Error Calculating Compass and Gyro Error Amplitudes Sunrise and Sunset Polaris Latitude Mer Pass Sun Mer Pass Star and Planet Marq St Hilaire Sun Marq St Hilaire Planet Position Fixing with Intercepts Calculating Twilight Star Sights Star Plot Star Plot outside cocked hat Star Plot 4 stars Star plot inside cocked hat Celestial Navigation Example questions Questions Amplitude 1 Amplitude 2 Amplitude 3 Amplitude 4 Azimuth 1 Azimuth 2 Azimuth 3 Azimuth 4 Azimuth 5 Intercept 1 Intercept 2 Mer Pass 1 Mer Pass 2 Polaris 1 Polaris 2 Chartwork The Chart Reading your position on a chart Position Lines DR and EP part I DR and EP Part II Dr and EP example Transit Bearings Relative Bearings Compass and Gyro Error Compass Error Calculating ETA Beam Bearings CPA (closest point of approach) Allowing Problem Counteracting problem Actual set rate and drift problem Transferred Position Line (Running Fix) Transferred Position Circle Horizontal Sextant Angle (HSA) Horizontal Angle Horizontal Angle – bearings more than 90deg apart Horizontal angle-two bearings 180deg apart Horizontal angle – two bearings 90deg apart Vertical Sextant Angle (VSA) Luminous, Nominal, Geographical Ranges Chartwork Example questions Example questions 1-5 question 1 question 2 question 3 question 4 question 5 New Lesson New Lesson New Lesson New Lesson Radar Plotting Basics – 1 Plotting Basics – 2 Aspect Set Rate Drift Set Rate Drift Exercise Both vessels going on same course Resuming our original course Complete exercise-single plot How to alter course Altering Course at a specific range Excercise-altering course How to alter speed Altering Speed at a specific range Altering Speed – exercise Multi Plot exercise 1-altering speed Multi Plot exercise 2-altering course