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    Celnav At The Usna And More
    From: Joel Jacobs
    Date: 2004 Jan 29, 15:53 -0500
     
    TO: ALCON
     
    This took me a lot longer to deal with than expected due to the snow and ice storms pummeling the NE.
     
    Whatever Ken Gebhart heard is incorrect. The movement is in the exact opposite direction.
     
    This is my understanding and has no official standing.
     
    The plebes take NS 100 in their second semester of their first year which runs the gambit of the basics of piloting, dead reckoning, rules of the road etc.
     
    Link to NS 100: http://prodevweb.prodev.usna.edu/SeaNav/NS100/100info.htm
     
    The old Advanced Navigation course that was the first semester of the Youngster (second year) that delved into the theory and practice of CELNAV, and all other forms of navigation using techniques we all are familiar with including what the Navy calls the strip method, is out. There will still be some practical hands on experience will continue during the Summer Cruises on the YP's.
     
    Link to NN 204. This has not as yet been revised:
     
    http://prodevweb.prodev.usna.edu/Seanav/NN204/204info.htm
     
    The NEW advanced Navigation, NN 204, will only cover the practical aspects of CELNAV in two short sessions without any theory. The emphasis will be on using the software program called Stella, mentioned earlier by Stacy and me, in place of strips and tables. This software program includes sight reduction, DR and all the sailings.
     
    THE BIG CHANGE is that the Navy is embracing electronic charting to the exclusion of paper charts, and will adopt it fleetwide supposedly by 2007. NEMA is getting out of the charting business and some commercial operators are supposed to pick up the slack.
     
    But one big positive is that the entire brigade will be spending more time offshore in Navy boats such as the YP, and sailing fleet where in the past only maybe 25% of the mids had 4-6 weeks at sea in small craft.
     
    Any errors in my interpreting what was said are my own and should not reflect on anyone but me.
     
    Stacy, please feel free to add to this.
     
    Joel Jacobs
     
     
       
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