Pilot/Captain course

For:

Pilot/Captain/Officer

Requirements:

Without experience on manned models

Good experience as seafarer

Duration:

5 days (43 hours) from Monday to Friday

Number inside a group:

2 to 8

Trainer:

Experienced instructor, former pilot

Acces request:

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Access delay:

From 4 to 24 weeks (duration between order and course)

Rates:

From 11 150€

Price not including taxi/accomodation/restaurant, taxes and additional means of training

Disabled people:

Please contact the center to study the feasibility

Assessement:

Done during all course by the instructor

Assessement formal report:

A formal report for station or crew manager can be made upon request

Absences and dropout:

Managing procedure upon request

Brittany (190 000 DWT, on heavy ballast)

Normandie (4 400 TEU over-panamax container ship)

Berlin (38 000 DWT, loaded)

Gilda (125 000 DWT, 70% loaded, with optional Becker rudder):

• Manoeuvres involving turns onto transits, entering channels and dockings

Europe (255 000 DWT, loaded) and/or Otello (8 500 TEU container ship):

• Entering and proceeding through a channel
• Turning circles in deep and shallow waters
• Accelerating turns in deep and shallow waters
• Turning and anchoring on transits
• Entering into a lock

Otello (8 500 TEU container ship)

• Proceeding through a curved waterway and docking the container terminal
• Entering into a lock

Berlin:

• Efficiency of the bow thruster & propeller depending on Pivot Point position
• Docking with the bow thruster

Gilda with Becker rudder:

• Various dockings in narrow areas using Becker rudder

Ben Franklin (125 000 m³ LNG Carrier with Schilling rudder):

• Various dockings in narrow areas using Schilling rudder

Wednesday

Current

(clockwise)

Brittany and/or Q-Max (266 000 m³ twin screw LNG carrier) :

• Docking and undocking dredging anchor stemming the current
• Entering and proceeding through channels
• Skidding into deep water channel

Europe:

• Entering and proceeding through channels
• Conventional multi-buoy sea berth (Tanker Captains)
• Turn a ship in a narrow river with following current using anchors
• Docking stemming the current

Gilda and/or Normandie or Ben Franklin or Otello:

• Transit through Suez Canal and Manhattan Channel
• Docking dredging anchor in current

Thursday

Swell

Current

(clockwise)

Grenoble (43 000 DWT, loaded) and Berlin or Ben Franklin:

• Transit through Suez Canal and Manhattan Channel, bank effects
• Various dockings in current

Optional: Voyager with pods (1000 ft cruise ship with two pods):

• First contact with pods: short track & docking

Q-Max and/or Otello:

• Entering and proceeding through channels
• Various dockings

Brittany and/or Otello:

• Negotiation of a sharp turn in channel showing skidding
• Drift in swell with & without engine
• Docking with bow thruster and current astern

Europe:

• Turns onto transits, entering channel
• Docking in shallow and confined waters – Stern first

Friday

Current

(Anti clockwise)

Europe:

• Transit in a channel with current abeam at slow speed
• Passage in river bend in shallow waters
• Approaching a pier with head current and docking stemming current

Gilda or Normandie or Ben Franklin:

• Entering a slip with abeam current

Berlin and Grenoble:

• Meeting and overtaking in the Suez Canal
• Experimenting with motion of pivot point with headway and sternway