CY Test 1, Madrid (Ministerio de Transportes) 2023

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

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• Greenwich Civil Time is related to Local Civil Time through:
• Where are chart corrections announced?
• The term “meridian altitude” refers to a sight of any celestial body when:
• What is the time of a Time Zone called?
• If we get a Sun’s declination of 23º 27’ S we will be sailing in the month of:
• In sextant sights, which error refers to the angle between the sea horizon and the apparent horizon?
• The cardinal points North and South lie at the intersections of:
• If we observe the constellation with the most bright stars, we will have identified:
• At sea, during evening twilight, we take a body’s altitude with the sextant. After applying the corrections, we obtain:
• Uranographic coordinates take as their fundamental reference plane the:
• Find the total compass error (Ct) given that the compass azimuth of Polaris is Za = 005º.
• On 25 November 2023, shortly after crossing the Tropic of Cancer on Rv = 340°, at meridian transit the Sun's lower-limb sextant altitude is Ai = 43° 17.7', declination δ = −20° 40.1', height of eye 3 m, and index error Ei = −4'. Find the observed latitude.
• At longitude 110º 45' W on 25 October 2023, when local civil time (HcL) is 23h 44m 50s, calculate the Greenwich civil time (HcG) and zone time (Hz).
• What are the main gases in the atmosphere and their approximate proportions?
• What is the name of the weather phenomenon in which the electrical potential difference between pointed objects, such as a boat’s masts, and the cloud base causes discharges?
• We are sailing at latitude 25°N in the Atlantic, in a tropical cyclone, with the wind veering clockwise. The safest manoeuvre is:
• How does the general circulation of currents in the North Atlantic work?
• According to the World Meteorological Organization, an “ice shelf” is a:
• Elija la traducción correcta de «MV…., keep the wind on starboard bow.».
• Elija la traducción correcta de «Is vessel (still) making way?».
• Elija la traducción correcta de «Hampered vessel in position .../ area ... (course ... degrees, speed ... knots).».
• Elija la traducción correcta de «No change expected within the next 2 hours.».
• Elija la traducción correcta de «Yes, danger of heavy listing/ capsizing/ sinking/…».
• Elija la traducción correcta de «When the general emergency alarm is sounded, which consists of seven short blasts and one prolonged blast, all passengers have to go to their assembly station.».
• Elija la traducción correcta de «What is your air draft?».