Advanced Piloting

Prerequisite:	Piloting Course
Date:	To Be Announced
Time:	1830 - 2100
Duration	1 night a week for 14 weeks
Location:	St. John Ambulance Centre on Dogwood St. at 2nd Avenue
Cost:	tba
Instructor:	To Be Announced
Contact: Training Officer	Ed Falstrem 250 923 3333(w) 250 923-7398 (h)
Email the Commander	s.v. xoros@telus.net

You will learn advanced coastal navigation principles to enable you to know, at all times, where you are.

The vessel's position can be determined by using landmarks and aids to navigation, including fixes on a single aid - allowing for leeway and drift, tides and tidal currents.

Course content: Become familiar with charts; the compass; steering and timing a course; tides and tidal currents; effects of current and leeway; methods of determining position; Running Fixes; aids to navigation; electronic navigational aids. and the sextant.

Course kit includes: Student Notes, Homework Questions and Answers booklets, One Training Chart "A"; Chart 1 - Symbols and Abbreviations; D.O.T. Tides in Canadian Waters; Plotting and Labelling Standard Booklet and Exam.

This qualification is accepted around the world as proof of competence for vessel hiring.

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