For more information on the course listed below please contact our SEO: Lt/C George Malindzak,SN at (919) 870-1834 or educationofficer@rsps.org or contact the course instructor listed below:
Piloting
This course includes a student guide with color graphics, core instructional material, and numerous hands-on exercises. In addition, the course includes a CD with Maptech's Chart Navigator software and an extensive selection of charts - including our own Bowditch Bay. This enables students to practice and duplicate exercises using digital charts as well as hand plotting.
The accompanying text, The Weekend Navigator, provides background material with well over 300 color graphics to explain the principles of electronic and traditional navigation for today's boaters.
Until now, there has been little available to show boaters how to really navigate with electronics. Whether you use a handheld GPS or a chart plotter, you will learn a great deal about how to get the most from your gear.
| Start Date: | January 5, 2011 and January 2012 | ||||||||||||||||
| Class Start Time: | 6:30PM - 9:30PM (Wednesdays) | ||||||||||||||||
| Contact: | George Malindzak | ||||||||||||||||
| Email: | educationofficer@rsps.org | ||||||||||||||||
| Phone: | (919) 870-1834 | ||||||||||||||||
| Location: |
Wake Technical Community College TBA |
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| Comments: |
Starting Fall 2010, RSPS will be offering
this Course through the Wake Tech Community College System.
Details can be found on the
Wake Tech website, Continuing Education/Public Safety Section,
page 68. (http://conted.waketech.edu/schedules/schedule_pdfs/wtcc_conted_classes.pdf) Piloting (listed as Piloting #TBA) will now be taught at the Wake Technical Community College with approximately XX hours of instruction and testing. Registration and Fee Structure: Since USPS, in general, and RSPS, in particular, will now be offering all courses to non-members, we have established a fee structure that is compatible and consistent with that which is being charged by most USPS Squadrons, i.e., roughly twice the member's cost. As a consequence, the fees listed in the Wake Tech Bulletin reflect those new charges. We are requiring all students (USPS members and non-members) to register for these classes through the Wake Tech registration process and pay the fee that is posted. About two weeks after the course begins, Wake Tech will reimburse RSPS a major portion of that fee, after which RSPS will reimburse each USPS member the approximate difference between the non-members fee and what would normally be charged to a member to take that particular course. The net effect of this process is that a USPS member would be paying approximately what he/she would normally be paying for a course, the only difference is that Wake Tech will be holding the money difference for 2-3 weeks. Below is the link to the Wake Tech website for class schedules and registration: http://conted.waketech.edu/ Click on Continuing Education Schedules & Registration, then students can search for the class by name or course number and this search will bring up all the information about the class (dates, times, location, description, etc.) Online registration is by credit card payment only. If students plan to pay with a check they can mail it to Wake Tech or bring in to their Main Campus (Continuing Education Dept., 9101 Fayetteville Rd, Raleigh) and pay on site. If they pay by cash they have to bring in to their Main Campus (same department and address as above).
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