Advanced Piloting (AP)

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Advanced Piloting (AP) Summary

Prerequisites:  Advanced Piloting is open to Active USPS Members  and Family Members who have have successfully completed Piloting

Advanced Piloting is the final part of the inland and coastal navigation series.  The emphasis is on the use of modern electronic navigation systems and other advanced techniques for finding position using GPS Navigation Skill .  Some of the topics covered are tides and currents and their effect on piloting, finding position using bearings and angles, simple use of the mariner's sextant, and electronic navigation (radar, loran, GPS, etc.) It is highly recommended to have completed "Piloting" before attempting this course. Continue your advanced navigation education and take "Junior Navigation" ( JN )and learn how to use a sextant and plot a course using stars and planets, or the moon or sun as your lines of position for plotting your course across the earth's oceans to distant lands.

Advanced Piloting (AP) Course Syllabus
(Subject to Change by instructor )