Sailing School
Radar (RDR - ASA 120)
Prerequisites
Description
The goal of this course is to teach safe, efficient use of radar for small-craft navigation in any condition of visibility. The focus is on small craft because ship radars typically offer features and operations that are quite different from those available on the radars normally used on vessels less than 80 feet. Despite this small-craft focus this course should serve as a foundation for those going on to learn ship radar.
This Radar Endorsement teaches safe, efficient use of small-craft radar for piloting, chart navigation, and collision avoidance, including radar principles and practical matters of radar operation as well as using a realistic PC based radar simulato to illustrate radar measurements. This couse covers a broad range of topics related to radar. Specific topics to be learned include, how radar works, interpreting the screen, position navigation, radar and navigation rules.
A realistic PC based radar simulator is used in the course to illustrate radar measurements.
Background reading and course text: Radar for Mariners by David Burch (McGraw Hill, 2005)
Review a complete ASA
course description with knowledge and skills list.
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Office hours: Monday to Sunday, 9am to 5pm
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