Ship Navigation Problems, Fuel Consumption Exam Trial for deck officer license
The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Fuel Consumption Exam typically focuses on assessing your knowledge and understanding of fuel management and consumption on vessels. While I can't provide specific questions from the exam, I can offer you a general overview of the topics that are typically covered in such an exam. This should help you prepare effectively:
1. Fuel Types and Properties: You may be tested on different types of fuels used in marine engines, their properties, and how these properties affect combustion and efficiency.
2. Fuel Systems: Understand the components and operation of fuel systems on various types of vessels, including storage tanks, fuel pumps, filters, and fuel lines.
3. Fuel Efficiency: Know how to calculate fuel efficiency, including the specific fuel consumption (SFC) or fuel consumption rate (FCR) for different engines and propulsion systems.
4. Fuel Consumption Factors: Understand the factors that affect fuel consumption, such as engine load, speed, trim, and hull condition. Be able to calculate fuel consumption based on these factors.
5. Fuel Measurement: Familiarize yourself with methods for measuring fuel consumption, including the use of flow meters and tank soundings.
6. Fuel Management: Learn about best practices for fuel management, including fuel storage, handling, and distribution onboard vessels.
Application features :
- Multiple-choice exercise
- There are Hint or Knowledge.
- More than 20 questions in one topic/part.
- Review the answers for the topic's learning materials.
- Pause the answering timer by touching it.
- Setting delay time to answer the questions and it can be on/off.
- Setting for the total number of questions that will appear per topic/ exam, the actual number of questions will be selected by the system if it is less than what has been set.
- It can be running Offline.
- On the topic selection screen, you can see the progress percentage of the exam per topic