Navigation Flashcards
1
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What flag is divers working over the side?
A
Alpha
2
Q
Which flag is handling of fuel or ammunition?
A
Bravo
3
Q
What flag is fixed wing flight operations?
A
Foxtrot
4
Q
Which flag is guide ship?
A
Golf
5
Q
Which flag is coming alongside in port or nesting?
A
India
6
Q
Which flag is personnel working aloft?
A
Kilo
7
Q
Which flag is man overboard?
A
Oscar
8
Q
Which flag is personnel recall?
A
Papa
9
Q
Which flag is small boat recall?
A
Quebec
10
Q
Which flag is underway replenishment?
A
Romeo
11
Q
Which flag is weighing anchors?
A
Uniform
12
Q
What is Flag five?
A
Emergency breakdown flag
13
Q
Which flag is prep(while conducting unrep)?
A
15 minutes to disengage
14
Q
What is prep? ( in port)
A
Five minutes until colors
15
Q
What is H-hood?
A
Used for infrared transmission. Can be only seen at night. Four mounted on the mounted on the forward CIWS facing the signal shock
16
Q
What’s ship binoculars? Big eyes?
A
2 flag bag on the ship. Port and starboard
17
Q
How many different type of flag bags?
A
2 port and starboard. International contains 50 bags. Allied contains 64
18
Q
Ansat/2A?
A
Infrared transmission. Located on the yardarm port and starboard
19
Q
What are yardarm blinkers?
A
Located on the yardarms port and starboard. Used for OMni directional transmission
20
Q
What commutes distress signal or directional movement from the ship or boat to ship?
A
Flares
21
Q
What is the voyage management system?
A
A virtual way of navigation
22
Q
What’s the first substitute flag?
A
Absence of flag officer or unit commander
23
Q
What’s the second substitute flag?
A
Absence of chief of staff
24
Q
What’s the third substitute flag?
A
Absence of the captain
25
What's the forth substitute flag?
Absence of civil or military official
26
What's true bearing?
Direction of an object 360 degree relative to true north.
27
What is relative bearing?
The direction of an object in a 360 degree circle from the bow of the ship
28
What's dead in the water? lol
When a ship is not making way under her own power.
29
What's head on?
When two vessels are meeting on reciprocal or nearly reciprocal course where possible collision could exist. Both vessels should alter course starboard to pass down port side
30
What's crossing?
When two vessels are crossing so as to involve a risk of collision. The vessels that has the other on its starboard side should keep out
31
What's overtaking?
When a vessel is coming more then 22.5 degrees abaft
32
What's stand on?
When one of the two vessels is to keep out of the way the other shall keep her course and speed
33
What's give way?
When each vessel is directed to keep out of the way of anther vessel as far as possible
34
What's restricted ability to maneuver?
Three all around lights, red over white over red, plus the normal u/w lights
35
What's vessel not under command.( loss of rudder control, no engines working)
Two all around lights red over red with the normal underway lights. Red over red the captain is dead
36
Anchored lights
Jackstaff, flagstaff,aircraft warning lights and all white deck lights
37
What are the low visibility fog signal for underway?
1 prolong blast of the ships whistle in 2min intervals
38
What are the low visibility fog signal for anchored?
Rapid ring of the ships bell followed by ringing of the gong
39
What are stadimeters?
An optical instrument used for measuring range from one ship to anther, with known height of the highest radar mast
40
What's an optical instrument used for measuring angles of fixed objects or stars?
Sextant
41
What's ships time pieces used to keep universal standard time?. Three in the chart room?
Chronometer
42
What's a sighting aid that's on a gyro repeater that is used to take a rough bearing to an object either true or relative. It uses a poo-up sight that is used like the open sight of a riffle with a prism below it.
Bearing circle
43
What's a more accurate sighting device which incorporates a telescope as the viewing mechanism
Telescope alidade
44
What's an instrument consisting of a protractor and one or more arms attached o a parallel motion so that the movement of the arms everywhere is parallel. Protractor can be rotated and set at any position
Parallel motion protractor
45
A map intended for use by aircraft or ships?
Chart
46
What's a compass having one or more gyroscopes as the directive element which has North seeking
Gyrocompass
47
What's in front of the pilot house always seeking magnetic north?
Magnetic compass
48
What Radar do we have?
SPS-64, 67, 49
49
What measures the depth of water by sending out sound signals, ranges are from 109 feet to 6,000 fathoms
Fathometer
50
What uses satellites to give position m, there are eight in orbit and use dollar?
Satellite navigation
51
What uses satellites to determine latitude and longitude within 10 feet
GPS
52
What's either a visual bearing or a radar that passes through the ships location?
Line of position
53
What's an estimated position?
?
54
What's a collection of LOP taken at the same time, or advanced to a common time that passes through a common point? The fix can be visual( bearings,celestial LOP's,sextant angeles) and shoes that the ship was at a particular point in time
Fix
55
What runs east and west on the chart but is measured North and south?
Latitude
56
What runs north and south and measured east and west?
Longitude
57
What's the plotting of the ships position by using the ordered course and speed to advance from a known position (a fix) to a point in the future.
Dead reckoning
58
What are the six rules for dead reckoning?
1. Course change
2. Speed change
3. L.O.P
4. FIX or running fix
5. Labeling
6 every hou on the hour
59
Why do you use dead reckoning?
To give the navigator a reasonable account of the ships position without having to take sights or obtain position by other means since in many places on earth a vessel may be beyond today's sophisticated navigation
60
Who is designated by the commanding officer to perform their and is responsible for the safe and proper operation of the ship?
OOD
61
Who is in charge of watch section underway and in charge of the proper execution of 1MC and lookouts?
Boatswain of the watch
62
Who assists the OOD in the safe evolution of the ship and carry out duties prescribed by the OOD?
Conning officer
63
Who follows the conning officers orders to Change course and speed upon request?
Helmsman/Lee Helmsmen
64
Who searches the water for the man and point out his position always pointing to the ship even as the ship moves?
Lookout
65
Who keeps informing the OOD of the ships position and weather picture?
Quartermaster of the watch
66
What measures the weight of the atmosphere called pressure. A warm front contains water vapor, so it's pressure valve is lower then on cold fronts. Located next to BMOW desk
Barometer
67
What instrument measures the water vapor condensation point through the cooling of the thermometer with a wet whick attached to it? The difference between the wet and dry bulb is entered into a chart to get the drew point abs can determine the height of the highest and lowest clouds
Psychrometer
68
What's a JX?
Radio and signals circuit.( bridge,signal bridge,cic, and radio)
69
What is a JL?
Lookouts(bridge, CIC, lookout stations)
70
What's a hand held intercom used to project voice at long range? lol
Bullhorn
71
What's a control, individual switch or master. Each bulb had two filaments. If one goes the other stays lighted. A yellow light will warn you
Telltale panel
