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LOCATING SHIPS IN FORMATION - 14244_141
DARK ADAPTATION - 14244_143

Signalman 3 & 2 - Aviation theories and other practices
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Figure 8-1.—Locating a ship by use of the formation plot. LOOKOUT DUTIES A good lookout has to be plenty sharp on a lot of things. Not only must lookouts be able to sight and identify objects, but they must be able to report them correctly, using relative bearings, distances, target angles, and in the case of aircraft, position angles. Report everything you observe; a normal tendency is to hesitate until you are certain an actual contact has been sighted. Do not hesitate. Many important sightings have been made on hunches. LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Explain the importance of maintaining a good visual lookout. Define night vision and dark adaptation. On every ship, the lookout has an extremely important job. A Signalman's duties also require Navy radar is the best that can be built; but there keeping a sharp lookout. As a matter of pride, the are many things that even radar cannot always detect, Signalman should be the first to sight and identify such as small buoys, planes low on the water, small objects, even on ships with an assigned lookout life rafts and flares, and many other kinds of danger to team. navigation. There have been a number of occasions 8-4







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