- NON-DG APPROVED COURSES
Pilot Training
The course can be tailored to suit candidate needs or by adding specific company requirements. Upon successful completion, all candidates will be issued with a course completion certificate.
Duration: 3 Days
Awading Body: Approved by Centurion University of Technology and Management.
- About The Course
This course is tailor made for existing pilots or seafarers up-skilling to become pilots by
providing them suitable ship handling practice based on the following topic areas.
- Proposed Syllabus
- Position of the pivot point.
- Types, effects and limitations of rudders.
- Effects of propulsion
- Effects, limitations and use of bow and stern thrusters
- Interpreting information contained in vessels’ manoeuvring booklets/diagrams
- Operation of helm, engines and bow thrusters to execute manoeuvres
- Theory and effects of interaction between ship, bottom, banks and other vessels, including tugs
- Effects of wind and current
- Effects, limitations and use of tugs
The course can be tailored to suit candidate needs or by adding specific company requirements. Upon successful completion, all candidates will be issued with a course completion certificate.
Duration: 3 Days
Prerequisites: Existing marine pilots or those who have been referred to on this course by appropriate harbour authorities
Teaching: Theory sessions supplemented by practical ship handling exercises on full mission simulator.
Awading Body: Approved by Board of Studies, Centurion University of Technology and Management.