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Celnav At The Usna And More
From: Joel Jacobs
Date: 2004 Jan 29, 15:53 -0500
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:
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