H.G. <OT> I remember my first Loran A; state of art it was and was I
proud of it. You had to tune it in and match the sine waves in
the oscilloscope.
But I was never as proud of any of that fancy stuff as I was
my old sextant And the day I ACED the C.G. Celestial Exam in
Houston for my Oceans endorsement.
Not a big thing for many, but for an old fisherman who
had quit school early it was just fine.
To top it off I "Almost" knew I had found all the
( not supposed to be trick questions )
and while they seldom grade the test while
your there I played devils advocate and told him real smugly
I "knew" I had a perfect score ( that did it and he took the bait) saying "no one every gets a perfect score" I'll always cherish
the well I'll be dammed look on his face after he graded it..
And I have seen a few times the old sextant was all that worked.
Jim
Ps just in the rare case, any one decides to go that route.
There are only 10 questions..but each one is made of 4 parts
And each part has 4 answers to pick from
miss any part and it makes the entire problem wrong.
Miss two parts in different questions and you fail, as
you can only miss one problem and still pass.
They say you must make a 90.
But The effect is like being required to make 97.5 unless you
miss the two or more parts on the same problem.
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While all of them are multiple choice you won't even come close
trying to guess at them, on top of that they already know the
most common mistakes ( answers ) people make and give when they
don't read the complete problem or jump to a conclusion, so
that exact answer is right there waiting on you to pick it.
Then they also know how at times most people will transpose
a number every which a way..but the most likely ways give a
certain result..ha that exact result is also waiting
to be picked..as it looks so perfect and matches with your calculations..but it's wrong. ( three are wrong but can be
very easy to pick ) if you forgot to carry a number ( they know
what number was to be carried and worked the rest of the problem
out that way to give a perfect match ) did you rush and
add something ( on the arc ) when it was to be subtracted,
well they also have just the right answer for that too ,
to help you think you didn't, and so on and so on.
Then such stuff as where would the magnetic compass have the
most variation, and they phrase it 4 ways,
#1 the higher southern latitudes, and the lower northern ones,
#2 the lower southern & lower northern
#3 the higher southern and higher northern
#4 the lower southern and higher northern..
I remember taht one as the trick was so simple..
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#3 is correct
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When they reverse the question and ask for the least variation
#2 would be correct.
Us yanks tend to jump to conclusions, and jump to the
lower southern latitudes means the south pole. But the
south pole is at the higher southern latitudes. |
