PY Test 2, Madrid (Ministerio de Transportes) 2022

Ministerio de Transportes (Madrid) · Convocatoria de diciembre · 40 questions

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• The metacentre is:
• Using up water, fuel and other stores located below the vessel’s centre of gravity:
• According to Salvamento Marítimo’s website, during a helicopter rescue what is compulsory?
• Fog that appears ahead of a warm front, formed as warm rain from nimbostratus evaporates while falling through cold air below, is:
• What are the features of the current affecting the Cantabrian and Galician coasts?
• On absolute humidity, mark the INCORRECT statement.
• On relative humidity, mark the CORRECT statement.
• The complex front that forms when a cold front catches a warm front, being faster, is usually called:
• In coastal navigation, very weak echoes appear on the radar. Although on a suitable range, the coastline does not show. In general, how could the radar be adjusted to show it?
• The great semicircle of the Earth running from pole to pole is called:
• Mark the INCORRECT statement.
• Choose the CORRECT statement on compass deviation.
• On the opposition line of Punta de Gracia lighthouse and Tangier port north breakwater head while observing Punta Paloma lighthouse at Dv = 070º, find your simultaneous position:
• Sailing at a point with a charted sounding of 5 metres (San Ciprián) and reading from the tide tables: High water time = 08:30, height 5.55 m; Low water time = 14:45, height 2.05 m. Which answer is closest to the sounding at 11:25?
• Steering Rv = 072º at 8 knots, you observe Punta Europa lighthouse at Dv = 020º at 16:06, and maintaining course and speed you observe Punta Almina lighthouse at Dv = 175º at 16:36. Find your 16:36 running fix:
• At position A (35º55´N; 005º05´W) we head in a sailing boat at 5 knots for position B (36º10´N; 006º25´W). Which answer is closest to the course and distance from A to B?