Practical Navigation Course
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Unit 5 test

Fifteen questions across the unit's chapters. Answers and rationales are revealed on submission; 70% to pass.

Unit 5 test

0 of 15 answered

  1. 1.An abort point is:

  2. 2.Napier's rules apply to:

  3. 3.The haversine formula is preferred over the plain cosine formula because it:

  4. 4.On total loss of GNSS, the navigator's immediate fallback is:

  5. 5.Latitude can be obtained in an emergency with only a sextant and watch by:

  6. 6.Composite great-circle sailing is used to:

  7. 7.A vessel makes 12 knots. Using the three-minute rule, distance run in three minutes is:

  8. 8.Steering 090° for 60 NM in latitude 60°N, the change of longitude is about:

  9. 9.Great-circle distance between two points is found with:

  10. 10.A stated accuracy of '10 m at 95%' corresponds roughly to:

  11. 11.The four stages of passage planning in IMO guidance are:

  12. 12.Two independent error sources of 3 m and 4 m combine to about:

  13. 13.One nautical mile equals:

  14. 14.Repeatedly averaging sights will reduce:

  15. 15.At 18 knots, how far does the vessel run in 20 minutes?