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What do solid green arrows on the main body of a pilot chart indicate?

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What do solid green arrows on the main body of a pilot chart indicate?

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🔍 Key Concepts

• Pilot chart symbology for winds vs currents • Difference between prevailing conditions and probable/expected conditions on charts • How arrows are typically used to show direction of movement on nautical charts

💭 Think About

• Ask yourself: on a pilot chart, what symbol is normally used to show wind (for example, does it use arrows, feathers, or wind roses)? • Think about which features on a pilot chart deal with currents and which with routes or statistics like percentage of calms. • Consider whether pilot charts show "shortest routes" directly, or if navigators derive those routes separately from other information.

✅ Before You Answer

• Verify what arrow color and style is used for currents versus winds in standard pilot chart legends. • Check whether pilot charts distinguish between prevailing direction and probable surface flow, and how that wording is used in the legend. • Confirm in a sample pilot chart legend what the solid green arrows on the main body of the chart are labeled as.

Question 1 of 27070

What do solid green arrows on the main body of a pilot chart indicate?

prevailing wind directions

prevailing ocean current directions

shortest great circle routes

probable surface current flow

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