PilotingLaajuus (2 cr)

Objective

Students
- understand the importance of bridge team work in piloting
- become familiar with piloting procedures and archipelago navigation in practice
- have ability to conduct passage plans for piloting passages and evaluate the effectiveness of the plan

Content

- lectures and project study. including onboard observation
- pilotage legislation and pilot as a member of bridge team
- planning a pilotage voyage taking into consideration the resources of the bridge and ship and the importance of effective team work
- project reporting to a cooperating shipping company

Qualifications

- Route planning and meteorology
- ARPA (A-II/1, A-II/2)
- ECDIS (A-II/1, A-II/2)
- Simulator training at the operational level 1
- Simulator training at the operational level 2

Materials

- MRM
- Approved training during studies

Accomplishment methods

Students can
- use professional vocabulary and concepts in an expert way in different situations
- work as team members in working life expert duties and identify and describe the problems of the professional field
- work together with customers, users and target groups
- promote teams’ goal-oriented operation

In addition, competence evaluation according to STCW code tables A-II/1 and A-II/2 columns 4 are used:
- the information obtained from nautical charts and publications is relevant, interpreted correctly and properly applied
- all potential navigational hazards are accurately identified
- the frequency and extent of monitoring of traffic, the ship and the environment conform with accepted principles and procedures
- a proper record is maintained of the movements and activities relating to the navigation of the ship
- responsibility for the safety of navigation is clearly defined at all times, including periods when the master is on the bridge and while under pilotage
- communication is clear, concise and acknowledged at all times in a seamanlike manner