Grand Traverse Bay

Sail and Power Squadron

ADVANCED PILOTING COURSE

The new course remains the final part of the inland and coastal navigation series. This material continues to build on the base developed in Piloting and includes practical use of additional electronic navigation systems and other advanced techniques for finding position. It is such a change from the previous AP course, it will be worthwhile for those already having taken AP to tune their skills with this new course. Among topics covered are: Finding position using bearings and angles, Collision avoidance using GPS and Radar, what to do when the electronics fail, tides, currents and wind and their effect on piloting, electronic navigation with GPS, Chartplotters, Radar, Autopilots, etc. Applications of courses lecture through practical, in class, exercises. The course can be ordered with and without the Weekend Navigator but students must have a copy, as this is the course text. This course uses the 15 x 4 plotter and dividers, which must be ordered separately. The 1210TR chart is included in the Student Kit.

ADVANCED PILOTING

PREREQUISITE	To obtain the AP Grade, the member must have completed the Seamanship, and Piloting courses.
INSTRUCTOR	Joe Schott Phone 231-267-9668 E-mail at bojo55@att.net
LOCATION	929 Business Park Dr. GTOC Conference Room
START DATE	March 13, 2012
TIME	Tuesday Nights from 7:00 TO 9:00 PM
COST	Non Member Cost AP Course Manual and Weekend Navigator $80.00 AP Course Manual ONLY $65.00 4” X 15” USPS Plotter $10.00 USPS 4” Round Protractor $8.00 ******************************************************* USPS Member Discount Cost AP Course Manual and Weekend Navigator $55.00 AP Course Manual ONLY $40.00 4” X 15” USPS Plotter $6.00 USPS 4” Round Protractor $4.00
TOOLS	Dividers or Compass Scribe, Plotter, Mechanical Pencil, & Eraser

COURSE SCHEDULE

Date	Topic	Instructor
3-13-12	COURSE INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1: Advance Piloting Considerations		Joe Schott
3-20-12	CHAPTER 2: Electronic Navigation Tools		Don Willman
3-27-12	CHAPTER 3: Fixes		Don Willman
4-3-12	CHAPTER 4: Avoidance Techniques		Joe Schott
4-10-12	CHAPTER 5: Position Techniques		Ken Musson
4-17-12	CHAPTER 7: Introduction – Working with Tides		Joe Schott
4-24-12	CHAPTER 8: Introduction – Working with Currents and Wind		Joe Schott
5-1-12	CHAPTER 9: Piloting With Wind and Currents		Ken Musson
5-8-12	CHAPTER 10: REVIEW AND EXAM DISTRIBUTION		Jerry Williams
5-15-12	AP Exam Due		Jerry Williams

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