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2ND MATE EXAM ORAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOR FUNCTION 1 AT NOIDA - LATEST QUESTIONS
Q. 1) During day tym hw will you know that a noc vessel is making way or not ?
XQ. 2) Compasses compared and courses checked , error verified.how do verify compass error ?
Xhe explained the answer himself and said when u compare the compasses,you read the magnetic compass heading so you check in deviation card what is the deviation for that heading and the variation to be taken from chart so this is what is meant by"error verified"
Q. 3) Night signal card of aground vessel more than 50m in length
XQ. 4) Vessel 4 points on your port bow not in sight and detected only by radar.action ?
XQ. 5) Nuc vessel day signal card
XQ. 6) What is yaw control ?
Xit is basically a weather control...whch is adjusted by keepin higher value in heavy weather n strong winds and smaller value in calm ses...
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0 this control is used in auto pilot.when rough seas are encountered,vessel has a tendency to yaw about the set course.to prevent the auto pilot from correcting this,yaw control is used.
Q. 7) What is amplitude and what is its use ?
XQ. 8) Region a stbd hand lateral mark 3 points on your port bow.action ?
XQ. 9) What is transit bearing ? what is its use ?
Xwhen we observe 2 or more terrestrial prominent objects in a line it is called a transit bearing.the transit bearing of these prominent objects are sometime joined by a line and true bearing is mentioned on chart otherwise we can use the parallel ruler to see their transit bearing value and compare with compass bearing taken from vessel to obtain compass error
Q. 10) Course recorder ?
XInstrument used to record the courses steered in the voyage from point to point .it looks likes a horizontal cylindrical drum having a recording paper with different quadrant.

