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Tom Cunliffe covers it pretty well. If you can, make contact with an RYA instructor and ask for sample exam papers. I have a couple of them at home, but I am away until the end of next week. If you are stuck I will send them to you. You may be able to get them from the RYA direct - give them a call.

When I presented for the oral I was expecting to perhaps be handed a sextant and asked to remove the adjustable errors. Nothing like that happened and in truth it was more like a friendly conversation. The examiner, of many years experience, told me that I was the first candidate he had met to use a calculator for sight reduction! I used an HO 249 pro-forma and worked the sights from a chosen position, so that the intercepts and azimuths would be comparable to the tabulated ones. He was also a bit bemused my plotting sheets, which were made on A4 5mm squared paper with 2'of longitude to 5mm and with the latitude scale measured along a line making an angle to the parallel equal to the chosen lat. We often used to do this on the back of a chart, at larger scale, when I was in the merchant navy,.

He was more interested in the actual passage than re-visiting the syllabus and from what I hear this seems to be normal practice.

My email is jdb0302_AT_ yahoo.co.uk

Cheers

John
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