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NAVEDTRA 14338A, Quartermaster Test
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Where are the orders given for the ship to carry out her mission? - ✔✔Bridge What is a map designed especially for navigators which provides a photo-like view of some body of navigable water, together with the topographic features of adjacent land? - ✔✔Nautical Chart Navigation is divided into four primary area: piloting, dead reckoning, celestial navigation, and what else? - ✔✔Radionavigation What may be defined as the movement of a vessel with the continuous reference to landmarks, aids to navigation, depth sounding, and radio navigation? - ✔✔Piloting What can be defined as projecting an intended course and speed from a known point? - ✔✔Dead Reckoning (DR) What may be defined as the practice of observing celestial bodies (the Sun, Moon, stars, and planets) to determine the ship's location? - ✔✔Celestial Navigation An experienced QM may now obtain a celestial fix within what distance of the ship's position? - ✔✔1/10th mile What may be defined as the determination of position by the use of radio waves? - ✔✔Radionavigation What term refers to a known point on Earth? - ✔✔Position What do Qm's refer to a position as? - ✔✔Fix
What is the orientation of a line drawn or imagined joining two positions without any regard to the distance between them? - ✔✔Direction Nautical distance is measured as the international nautical mile (mmi/nm) of how many feet? - ✔✔6076.1 ft What is a simple ratio often used to convert nm to mi? - ✔✔1.15: In navigation speed is referred to as nautical miles per hours or what else? - ✔✔Knots (kn) The diameter of the Earth at the Equator equals approximately two many nautical miles? - ✔✔6,888 nm The polar diameter of the Earth is approximately how many nautical miles? - ✔✔6,865 nm What is formed by a plane passing through the center of Earth? - ✔✔Great Circle What is formed by planes that do not pass through the center of Earth? - ✔✔Small Circle What are the small circle around an on Earth's surface? - ✔✔Parallels Measurements of latitude cannot exceed how many degrees in either direction? - ✔✔90 degrees What is the starting point for all longitude measurements? - ✔✔Prime Meridian What is the Prime meridian also known as? - ✔✔Greenwich Meridian What represents a section (large, medium, or small) of the Earth's surface? - ✔✔Chart Since the navigational grid is located on a sphere, and navigational charts are flat, what process is used to transfer the grid lines from the sphere to the chart? - ✔✔Projection
Charts are stowed in numerical order by what? - ✔✔Regions NGA charts have numbers consisting of one to how many digits? - ✔✔Five How many portfolio (grouping) systems does the U.S. Navy use to assign charts into allowances for ships? - ✔✔Three What is the letter in the third position of the NGA stock number? - ✔✔Portfolio assignment letter What is used to conserve nautical charts and publications and to reduce the amount of chart correction work aboard ship? - ✔✔Chart/Publication Correction Record Card System Which two months is the Semiannual Bulletin Digest for Hydrographic Products published? - ✔✔June and December The Quarterly Bulletin for Classified Hydrographic Products is published in January, July, and October, with volume XI being reissued in what month? - ✔✔April Distribution of the Notice to Mariners is made how often to all U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships and to most ships of the merchant marine - ✔✔Weekly What is responsible for maintaining all U.S. Aids to Navigation? - ✔✔U.S. Coast Guard Whenever a ship is under way, it is necessary to receive information concerning any hazards in the area that the ship may be operating. What are used to fulfill this requirement? - ✔✔Broadcast Warnings What contain information that advises mariners of operating area warnings? - ✔✔Navareas What is a six-volume cumulative summary of corrections to charts and publications previously published in the Notice to Mariners? - ✔✔Summary of Corrections
What color ink should never be used to make corrections on a chart? - ✔✔Red What is the only fully functional Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)? - ✔✔Global Positioning System (GPS) All ships using GPS as the primary fix source are required to log Figure of Merit and to obtain a visual and/or RADAR fix at how many times the intervals indicated? - ✔✔ 3 What is an internal GPS receiver calculation that indicates the best accuracy achievable from the satellites being tracked? - ✔✔FOM (Figure of Merit) What is a U.S. Navy system that distributes highly accurate navigation data to shipboard systems and provides an electronic display of Digital Nautical Charts for use by the ship's navigation team? - ✔✔Navigation Sensor System Interface (NAVSSI) What is designed in accordance with International Maritime Organization specifications, as an Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS), and to the specifications of the United States Navy for ECDIS-N. Traditional bridge equipment and most? - ✔✔VMS What provides an automated capability for route planning and Digital Nautical Chart® correction to include the latest "Notice to Mariners" information? - ✔✔ECDIS-N system The databases used by ECDIS-N are the Digital Nautical Chart® (DNC) and a companion product that is called what? - ✔✔Tactical Ocean Data (TOD) What allows application software to read data directly from computer-readable media without prior conversion to an intermediate form? - ✔✔Vector Product Format (VPF) What is an unclassified vector-based digital geospatial intelligence database depicting significant features essential for safe marine navigation? - ✔✔DNC What is a highly accurate form of navigation involving frequent determination of a ship's position relative to geographic references? - ✔✔Piloting
While your ship is within radar range of land, you are required to keep a coastal navigation plot on a chart by plotting what? - ✔✔Radar fixes What are harbor charts with anchorage berths overprinted in colored circles of various diameters? - ✔✔Anchorage charts Which system is merely a network of metal tubes designed to carry the sound of the voice from one station to another that it is practically immune to mechanical failure? - ✔✔Voice tubes What are standard telephones powered by the ship's generators and are normally used in carrying out the administrative routine aboard ship? - ✔✔Ship's Service Telephones Instead of a busy signal being returned, what phone breaks into the circuit so the caller then can interrupt the conversation in progress to deliver an important message? - ✔✔Executive cut-in telephones What is the oldest method of communication still used by ships today? - ✔✔Messenger What refers to communications over a distance and includes any transmission, emission, or reception of signals, writing, images, and sounds? - ✔✔Telecommunications What band is used extensively by the Navy for LOS and satellite communications? - ✔✔Ultra-High- Frequency (UHF) What band is the workhorse of microwave communications? - ✔✔Super-High-Frequency (SHF) What is the best known and most widely used of all navigational instruments? - ✔✔Compass Which type of compass is used the most aboard ship? - ✔✔Gyrocompass What are the two types of magnetism? - ✔✔Permanent and Induced
What are magnetic lines of force called? - ✔✔Magnetic meridians Many ships carry more than one magnetic compass. What is the primary magnetic compass called? - ✔✔Steering compass What is the second compass called if a ship has two magnetic compasses? - ✔✔Standard compass What serves as a housing for the compass? - ✔✔Binnacle What may be defined as the amount that the compass is deflected from the magnetic meridian because of the effects of the ship's iron? - ✔✔Deviation What is the process of correcting for deviation error called? - ✔✔Swinging ship The deviation table must be updated at least how often and posted on or near the magnetic compass? - ✔✔Annually What counteracts the ship's magnetic field and establishes a condition such that the magnetic field near the ship is, as nearly as possible, just the same as if the ship were not there? - ✔✔Degaussing What is the angle that the centerline of the ship or boat, or a line marked on a chart makes with some other reference line? - ✔✔Heading How many different ways are there to name a course or heading? - ✔✔ 3 The magnetic compass must be adjusted at least how often? - ✔✔Annually The process of swinging ship is often tedious and very time consuming. In most cases a minimum of how many hours should be set aside for this task? - ✔✔ 4 What is the basis for the gyrocompass? - ✔✔Gyroscope
