Free tools for the water, the woods and the road home.

1. OCT22
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   New and free in Hall Pass: Behavior Tech Ticket at headedin.com/rbt, practice for the RBT (Registered Behavior Technician) exam on the BACB's 3rd edition outline that every exam has used since January 2026. 250 of our own questions across all 6 content areas and all 43 tasks, from interval recording and preference assessments to prompting, extinction bursts and the ethics code's gift rule, each tagged to its task, every answer explained and sourced, with full-length practice tests (75 scored + 10 unscored in 90 minutes) and a Pass Meter.

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   Headed Back's Play tab got its own look: the license plate game, Swamp Ape, critters, road-trip trivia, Walk the dog, My Day, Real Florida bingo and the Big Tree Hunt now wear palm-colored badges instead of emoji (Walk the dog's is a fire hydrant).

2. OCT21
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   Mote Marine Laboratory said yes: our beach flags keep coming from their Beach Conditions Reporting System, and there is now a Become a Beach Ambassador page at headedin.com/beach-ambassador (Florida Panhandle volunteers first, about a minute a report). Ask the AI connector about a Panhandle beach and it shares the training link too.

3. OCT19
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   Headed Back 0.3.0 is live as the road-trip game app: the license plate game, Swamp Ape Millionaire, road-trip trivia, critters at real places and The Daily Humidity, with Play as the first tab and a brag card for every game. headedback.com tells the same story now.

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   New in Hall Pass: an ACS code lookup at headedin.com/pilot/acs-codes. Paste the codes from your FAA knowledge test report (like PA.I.C.K2) and see each Area of Operation, Task and element in plain English, straight from the current ACS, for the Private, Instrument, Commercial, CFI and FOI tests, with how many of our practice questions cover each code and one to try right there. One tap copies the list to send to your CFI.

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   Captain's Ticket adds a free captain's license practice test page at headedin.com/captain/practice-test: how the Coast Guard exam is graded module by module (90% on Rules of the Road, 70% on the rest), 20 real questions with answers from the six-pack and 100-ton exams, and a link to every one of the 79 license pages.

4. OCT18
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   PT Ticket and OT Ticket add How to get your license pages for all 50 states and DC at headedin.com/pt/licensed and headedin.com/ot/licensed: for each state its board, fees, any jurisprudence or law exam, the fingerprint or background check, temporary permits, and whether it is in the PT Compact or the OT Compact (and since when it accepts privileges), checked against the board's own pages and rules, with free practice for the NPTE, NPTE-PTA, NBCOT OTR and COTA one tap away.

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   New in Hall Pass: "Did I pass?" pages for 12 exams, the searches people make right before and after test day. Each one gives the exact pass rule from the official source with the date we checked it, what the number does and doesn't mean, and what to do if you didn't pass (retake waits and limits): NREMT EMT (headedin.com/emt/shut-off-at-70) and paramedic, ASWB, NPTE (600), NBCOT (450), NCE, CEN (99 of 150), FAA written tests (70%, plus what the ACS codes on your test report mean), Part 107 (42 of 60), ham radio (26 of 35), Coast Guard license modules (Rules of the Road 90%) and the 2025 citizenship test (12 of 20). Each page has a big button into that guide's free practice test.

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   New in Hall Pass: free 10-question quizzes at headedin.com/quiz for the NREMT, NCLEX-RN, ASWB Masters, FAA Part 107, ham Technician, private pilot and Coast Guard OUPV exams. Ten random questions from each study guide, the answer and the reason after every one, and a score card to share ("I got 8/10 on the NREMT quiz"). Plus two career quizzes in the style of headedin.com/path: which EMS job fits you (headedin.com/path/ems) and which water job fits you (headedin.com/path/water), each result with what the job takes and its source.

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   RN Ticket adds How to get your RN license pages for all 50 states and DC at headedin.com/nclex/licensed: the national NCLEX steps (Pearson VUE registration, the Authorization to Test, the $350 fee from February 1, 2027), which states are in the Nurse Licensure Compact, and for each state its board, fees, fingerprint or background check, renewal cycle and continuing education, worked through from the board's own pages and rule text with the date we checked it. Every page links to the free NCLEX shut-off simulator.

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   Social Work Ticket and Counselor Ticket add state licensing pages for social work and counseling for every state and DC, 102 pages at headedin.com/socialwork/licensed and headedin.com/counselor/licensed: which license titles the state uses, which ASWB exam each one needs, whether the state uses the NCE or the NCMHCE (said plainly when it's the NCMHCE, which our guide doesn't cover), supervised hours, board fees and law exams, each worked through from the state board's own pages and rule text with the date we checked it. Free.

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   New in Hall Pass: ER Nurse Ticket at headedin.com/cen, free practice for the CEN (Certified Emergency Nurse) exam, built on the new BCEN outline that took effect July 6, 2026 (pass = 99 of 150). 270 of our own ED-case questions across all 11 domains, split the way the exam is, each tagged to its outline topic so the score report shows exactly what you miss: what to do FIRST, which order to question, which antidote, plus triage, EMTALA, forensic care and restraint rules. Every answer explained and its public source named (AHA, CDC, ATLS, Surviving Sepsis, ACOG, FDA labels). Practice tests at the real 66% mark and a Pass Meter. Linked from the EMT guides for EMTs headed into ER nursing. Free; not affiliated with BCEN or ENA.

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   New: which license should you get? A five-question quiz at headedin.com/path points you to a path that fits (EMT, nurse, social work or counseling, PT or OT, pilot or drone, boat captain, aircraft mechanic or radio), with what it takes and a free practice exam to start on. Every free study guide also now says so in its title, so people searching for free practice tests can find them.

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   EMT Ticket's how-to-become-an-EMT guide now has a page for every state and Washington, DC under headedin.com/emt/licensed, each worked through step by step from that state's own EMS office pages and rule text: age, course, which exam (North Carolina and New York give their own), background check, fees, renewal and moving from another state, every source linked with the date we checked it. Where a state doesn't publish a step, the page says to ask your program instead of guessing. Free.

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   OT Ticket adds the COTA level at headedin.com/ot/cota, on the same OTR/COTA switch: practice for the NBCOT COTA exam, the certification for occupational therapy assistants, split the way the 2022 COTA outline splits it (gather information 27%, carry out interventions 55%, professional standards 18%). 214 of our own questions, 103 of them written just for COTAs: contributing data within service competency, carrying out the OTR's plan, knowing when to stop and tell the OT, plus billing, documentation and ethics from the assistant's side, with stand-alone pick-three-of-six questions like the real exam. Every answer names its public source, every question its outline task. Free.

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   Social Work Ticket now covers all four ASWB exams: the Advanced Generalist level is new at headedin.com/socialwork/advanced, for the advanced nonclinical license a few states offer (Texas's LMSW-AP, for one), split 35/33/32 like the 2026 outline. 533 questions: the core vignettes plus 30 written for this level on leadership, hiring and appraisal, program evaluation and how it changes services, grant proposals, quality assurance and research ethics. The Bachelors level grows to 449 with 24 more recall questions (social welfare history, SSDI, ICWA, Erikson, CAGE, Rothman's community models). Every answer explained and sourced. Free.

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   Social Work Ticket adds the Bachelors level at headedin.com/socialwork/bachelors, first on the Bachelors/Masters/Clinical switch: practice for the ASWB Bachelors exam, the one states use for a bachelors-level license (LBSW, LSW), split the way the 2026 Bachelors outline splits it (Values and Ethics 35%, Assessment and Planning 33%, Intervention and Practice 32%). 425 questions with more recall, like the real Bachelors exam: the generalist vignettes plus 39 written just for this level on task-centered practice, assertiveness and role play, human behavior theories and the federal programs clients use (WIC, LIHEAP, Medicare, IDEA). Every answer explained and sourced, a score report by outline code, 110-question practice tests and a Pass Meter. Free.

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   Every study guide, Captain's Ticket included, now opens with Today's 5: a random mix from every topic (switch it to 10 for more), with a miss or two coming back so they stick. The goal is a couple of days a week, not every day, and the streak counts weeks in a row. New setting, Explain as I go: practice tests show why the best answer is best before you move to the next question. Free on every guide.

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   New and free: OT Ticket at headedin.com/ot, practice for the NBCOT OTR exam, the certification every state requires to license occupational therapists. 258 of our own clinical-case questions split the way the 2022 outline splits the real test (evaluation 23%, analysis and planning 23%, interventions 38%, practice management 16%), from hand therapy and orthoses to sensory strategies, feeding, seating, home modification and Medicare rules. Twelve scenario sets work like the real exam's: an opening scene, then four questions where you pick the three best of six. Every answer names its public source, the score report works by outline task, and there are 90-question practice tests, the Pass Meter, Report a problem on every question and a how-to-get-licensed page.

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   Social Work Ticket adds the Clinical level at headedin.com/socialwork/clinical, on the same Masters/Clinical switch: practice for the ASWB Clinical exam, the one states use for the LCSW, split the way the 2026 Clinical outline splits it (Values and Ethics 36%, Assessment and Planning 32%, Intervention and Practice 32%). 635 questions: the core vignettes plus 140 written just for clinicians, on DSM-5-TR differential diagnosis (how long, how many, what came first), psychotherapy models from cognitive processing therapy and prolonged exposure to DBT, ACT and couples work, the duty to protect, confidentiality in couples and teen therapy, research ethics and clinical supervision. The Masters bank doubled too, from 251 to 509 of our own sourced questions, with at least three on every knowledge statement in the outline. Free.

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   New and free: Counselor Ticket at headedin.com/counselor, practice for the National Counselor Examination (NCE), the licensing exam most states use for the LPC or LMHC. 257 of our own questions across all six NCE domains in the content outline's weights, every one of its 173 statements covered: "what should the counselor do FIRST" vignettes plus the theorists, stages, DSM-5-TR criteria and statistics the exam asks about. Every answer is explained and names its source (ACA Code of Ethics, HIPAA, SAMHSA, CDC, NIMH), the score report works by outline code, and there are 80-question practice tests, the Pass Meter, Report a problem on every question, and a how-to-get-licensed page with Texas, Florida and California worked through.

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   PT Ticket adds the PTA level at headedin.com/pt/pta, on the same PT/PTA switch: practice for the NPTE-PTA, the national exam for physical therapist assistants, split the way the January 2024 PTA outline splits it, with its heavier weight on devices, modalities and safety. 239 of our own questions (68 written just for PTAs: data collection, carrying out the plan of care, knowing when to stop and call the PT), each tagged to its outline cell, every answer cited to a public source, plus a 70-question practice test and a Pass Meter. Free.

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   New and free: PT Ticket at headedin.com/pt, practice for the NPTE-PT, the national exam every state uses to license physical therapists, split the way the January 2024 content outline splits it. 252 of our own questions, mostly clinical cases (the findings, then the best test, treatment, precaution or referral), each tagged to its outline cell so the score report shows the cells you miss, and every answer cites a public source. Plus 90-question practice tests, a Pass Meter and a how-to-get-licensed page.

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   New and free: Social Work Ticket at headedin.com/socialwork, practice for the ASWB Masters exam (the LMSW exam in most states) on the new outline ASWB started using August 3, 2026. 251 of our own questions, mostly "what should the social worker do FIRST" vignettes like the real exam, split the way the outline is (Values and Ethics 35%, Assessment and Planning 33%, Intervention and Practice 32%), each tagged to its outline code so the score report shows exactly what to study. Every answer explains why and names its source (NASW Code of Ethics, HIPAA, 42 CFR Part 2, SAMHSA). Plus a plain-English page on getting licensed, state by state. Built by an RN; not affiliated with ASWB.

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   Every question in the free study guides now has a Report a problem link. Think one is wrong? Tap it under the answer, say why and add your source. We check it against the source and post the ruling, fixed or not, under that question and in each guide's new Checked answers list. We also now count which questions people miss most on their first try (just the question number, nothing about you), so the hard or broken ones get a second look.

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   New and free: the NCLEX-RN shut-off simulator at headedin.com/nclex/shutoff. Nursing students ask one thing after the exam: it shut off at 85, did I pass? Now they can see how it really works. Take a practice run on the stopping rules in NCSBN's 2026 test plan (85 to 150 questions, 15 unscored, 3 clinical judgment case studies with a chart that updates, highlight, drop-down and bowtie items) and see where your sim stops, with every answer explained at the end and a card to share. Or watch test-takers at any level and run 1,000 at once: most stop at 85, passes and fails alike. Plus a plain-English page on what 85, 150 and running out of time mean. Built by an RN; our own questions, not affiliated with NCSBN.

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   Class Board school plans now cost $5 per student per month, only for the months a class runs, or $299 a year for a whole program up to 100 students. A board for up to 10 students stays free, students never pay, and the guides stay free for everyone.

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   Class Board now shows weak topics: instructors at headedin.com/class see each student's Pass Meter next to their weakest topics by the exam's own outline (NREMT domains for EMR, EMT, AEMT and Paramedic, FAA ACS areas, Coast Guard modules), the codes they miss most, and the last day they studied, plus a Teach next list that adds up the class's weakest topics. Students can type the class code right on the Hall Pass shelf, each student counts once however many guides they study, the board writes the email to your students and prints a QR poster that opens the class's own guide, and there's a one-page how-to for program directors. Students still never share single answers, and a new Erase button on the privacy page deletes everything a browser ever sent. Free for up to 10 students per board.

5. OCT16
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   EMT Ticket is complete: all four levels are live, EMR, EMT, AEMT and now Paramedic at headedin.com/emt/paramedic/. 905 questions built to the NREMT Paramedic test plan in use since July 2024, about a third in 70 scenarios you run as the crew leader en route, on scene and after the call, and a third of cardiology on ECG rhythm strips and 12-leads. The strips are ours: our own script draws every one on real 25 mm/s paper with the calibration pulse and 3-second marks, so the rate counts out by the 6-second method and the PR and QRS measure true. ACLS, PALS and newborn doses checked against the AHA, FDA labels and the NASEMSO model guidelines, every answer naming its source. Call it in got its Paramedic switch for real: ALS treatments on the glove and a med-control order you have to ask for, granted or denied in the hospital's read-back. Free.

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   EMT Ticket climbs to the Advanced EMT level at headedin.com/emt/aemt/: 600 of our own questions built to the NREMT AEMT test plan in use since July 2024, a third of them in 43 scenarios that unfold en route, on scene and after the call, the way the exam's Clinical Judgment domain runs them, each question tagged to its step of the clinical judgment cycle (recognize cues, analyze, hypothesis, solutions, action, evaluation). The rest covers airway, cardiology and resuscitation, trauma, medical and OB, and operations at the AEMT scope: IV and IO access, fluids, dextrose, glucagon, IM epinephrine, nebulized albuterol, nitrous oxide, supraglottic airways, CPAP and waveform capnography, with doses checked against the NASEMSO model guidelines and every answer naming its federal source. Graphical questions put a capnography waveform, a monitor screen or an IV set in front of you. The study engine learned scenario sets for this (a study round keeps a scenario together; the practice test draws whole scenarios), so every guide on the site can use them. The level switch on every EMT page now reads EMR / EMT / AEMT. Free. A study aid, not a protocol.

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   Call it in: EMT Ticket now has an EMS radio report trainer at headedin.com/emt/radio/. The patient notes are on your glove; hold the button, give the hospital your radio report out loud, and the hospital copies back what you actually said, wrong age and all. Thirty scenarios written to the EMT scope (chest pain, stroke signs, hypoglycemia, anaphylaxis, overdose, OB, cardiac arrest and more), graded for every element of the report and the order, against a 30-second clock, with a one-line list of what you left out. Listen mode reads you a report and quizzes you on it. Speech recognition runs on your device or not at all; in Safari you say it out loud and check yourself. Free. A drill, not your protocol.

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   EMT Ticket now carries all five item types the NREMT exam uses: multiple-choice, multiple-response, build-list, and the two new ones, options-table and drag-and-drop (sort each row into the right column, scored all-or-nothing like the real thing). Sixteen new table items (624 questions in all, 550 at the EMR level) on medications an EMT gives versus assists with, START triage tags, AVPU, oxygen devices and flow rates, bleeding control, shock stages, the Cincinnati stroke scale, PPE by hazard, splint choice and CPR numbers by age. The renderer lives in the shared study engine, so every guide on the site can use it. A study aid, not a protocol.

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   EMT Ticket grew to 608 questions (560 multiple-choice, 31 multiple-response, 17 build-list), every one still tagged to its NREMT job task, and gained a free EMR level at headedin.com/emt/emr/: the 537 questions an Emergency Medical Responder is tested on, in the EMR exam’s own weights (90-110 items, 1 h 45 min), with a 60-question practice test, Pass Meter and score report by task. For firefighters, police, lifeguards and anyone first on scene before the ambulance. Switch levels at the top of either page. A study aid, not a protocol.

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   New York worked through on the EMT Ticket licensing page (headedin.com/emt/licensed), next to Florida: New York certifies its own EMTs, with the state BLS practical skills exam from your course, then the state written exam at a PSI center or by remote proctor (or the NREMT exam by choice since September 2024), three attempts per eligibility and two years from the end of the course, 48-month certificates, the 45-hour CME renewal, and reciprocity for NREMT and out-of-state card holders. Every fact checked October 16, 2026 against the Bureau of EMS pages, policy statements 24-06 and 25-06 and 10 NYCRR Part 800, all linked from the page.

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   EMT Ticket at headedin.com/emt: a free study guide for the NREMT EMT cognitive exam (April 2025 test plan) and the state EMT exams built on the same national standards. 369 of our own questions written to the National EMS Education Standards and Scope of Practice Model, every one tagged to one of the 28 job tasks in the exam’s five domains, with a score report by task, a Pass Meter, and a plain-English how-to-get-licensed page (the national steps, a link to your state’s rules, Florida worked through as the example). Built by an RN and former EMT. A study aid, not a protocol: follow your medical director. Not affiliated with the National Registry or any state EMS office.

6. OCT15
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   Tower radio at headedin.com/atc (Talk like a controller > Radio): hold the push-to-talk button, say the call, and the page grades every element against FAA Order JO 7110.65 and the order you said it in, then a pilot reads it back and one readback in four has a mistake to catch. Twenty kinds of calls, from a landing clearance to a low altitude alert. Speech recognition runs on the device or not at all (Chrome and Edge with on-device recognition today; otherwise you say it and check it yourself). Nothing is recorded or sent anywhere. Coming to the Hall Pass app with its next build.

7. OCT14
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   Headed Back is on the App Store, free: apps.apple.com/us/app/headed-back/id6818855256. Everything built since Oct 6 landed in it the same day: My Day (plan on the first screen, the story and flyover at night), Storm watch when a hurricane cone touches Florida, On Air local podcasts and headlines for all six parts of the state, Big Tree Hunt statewide, Florida Passport stamps, Message in a bottle, Español as an opt-in, and a Get Headed In row in More.

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   The web app: headedin.com/app and headedback.com/app open the chart or map, forecasts, Play, Health and the planning tools in any browser, with the same anonymous account a phone gets. No check-ins on the web: a browser tab stops when the phone locks, so an overdue text can only come from the phone app.

8. OCT12
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   Hospital Corpsman E-6 practice grew from 397 to 436 questions (headedin.com/navy/hm/e6): sewage and wastewater, ashore and afloat, from the MSD types and how far out a ship may pump, to CHT tank alarms, why the big tanks are aerated, how nested ships pass sewage to the pier, and why only the safety watch gets the spare SCBA.

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   Hospital Corpsman E-5 practice grew from 374 to 421 questions (headedin.com/navy/hm): the ship's water from the corpsman's side, from why single-pass RO water still gets chlorine and how much calcium hypochlorite a fast-attack sub may carry, to the 1-ounce-per-5,000-gallon rule, the air gap under every faucet, and how to run down a taste and odor complaint.

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   Boatswain's Mate E-6 practice grew from 410 to 450 questions (headedin.com/navy/bm/e6): the fine print of the Rules of the Road, from how high the masthead lights sit and how big a day shape is, to every distress signal in Annex IV, the blue and red-yellow lights on patrol boats, and the bridge-to-bridge radio rules on channel 13.

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   Boatswain's Mate E-6 practice grew from 360 to 410 questions (headedin.com/navy/bm/e6): lights, shapes and fog signals the way a BM1 meets them on the bridge, like what a tug shows with 250 meters of tow out, which side of a dredge you pass, how close you can get to a minesweeper, what you sound towing a target sled in fog, and when the gong follows the bell.

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   Boatswain's Mate E-5 practice grew from 432 to 481 questions (headedin.com/navy/bm): the Rules of the Road from the coxswain's seat, Rules 1 to 19, International and the Inland differences, like why a ship alongside the oiler is restricted in her ability to maneuver, who has the right of way going downriver, and what you do when you hear a fog signal forward of the beam.

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   Culinary Specialist E-5 practice grew from 329 to 371 questions (headedin.com/navy/cs): the scullery and the water side of the galley, from why a quat bucket can fool your test strip (the cloth soaks up 40 percent) and why gel bleach is banned, to the ice machine plate count that triggers a cleaning, the air gap under every faucet, and why steel wool never touches galley gear.

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   Culinary Specialist E-6 practice grew from 280 to 319 questions (headedin.com/navy/cs/e6): the why behind galley equipment rules a CS1 has to defend at inspection, from copper poisoning out of a soda carbonator and zinc out of a galvanized can, to why a modified dish machine loses its NSF listing, why the reach-in thermometer can not sit in the coldest corner, and why a bayonet thermometer can not read a burger patty.

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   Culinary Specialist E-5 practice grew from 289 to 329 questions (headedin.com/navy/cs): vacuum packing and sous vide (why Brie and unfrozen fish are out), what to do with surplus before it goes bad, the 45-day freezer limit, the eight major allergens, how the raw-food menu warning has to read, and the study that set the 4-hour time rule.

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   Commercial Pilot practice at headedin.com/commercial grew from 1,416 to 1,493 questions, aimed at the ACS tasks the bank had skipped: power-on stalls from entry to recovery, taxi clearances and the explicit runway-crossing rule, UNABLE, runway incursion causes, wind socks and tetrahedrons, the emergency descent, diverting to an alternate with a VOR compass rose, lost procedures and DF steers, the short-field takeoff, the steep spiral, slow flight and speed instability, and the after-landing, parking and securing checks. Every answer still points to the handbook page it came from.

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   Culinary Specialist E-6 practice grew from 240 to 280 questions (headedin.com/navy/cs/e6): the science a CS1 gets asked about behind the time and temperature rules: why the first 2 hours of cooling matter most, why 135 F beats C. perfringens, why eggs sit at 41 F on base when the rest of the country allows 45, which foods skip date marking and why, and where the 4-hour time rule comes from.

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   Culinary Specialist E-5 practice grew from 225 to 289 questions (headedin.com/navy/cs): the reasons behind the receiving and handling rules, from why shellstock tags are kept exactly 90 days and which reef fish carry ciguatera, to why a swollen can goes back, why poultry sits on the bottom shelf, why your sanitizer bucket is no place for the ladle, and why the services banned latex gloves.

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   Flight Instructor (CFI) practice at headedin.com/cfi grew from 587 to 754 questions, filling the 22 ACS tasks that had none: teaching short-field and soft-field work, slips, the 180 accuracy landing, climbs, descents and glides, the steep spiral, slow flight and the region of reversed command, power-on, trim and secondary stalls, the flight instruments and their errors, inadvertent IMC, emergency descents, ELT and survival gear, pressurization and decompression, and the preflight, start, run-up and postflight checks. Every answer still points to the Airplane Flying Handbook or PHAK page it came from.

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   Culinary Specialist E-6 practice grew from 168 to 240 questions (headedin.com/navy/cs/e6): how the inspectors score your galley's risk on the DD 2972 (the five factors, the points, why shipboard rates extremely high and how often the survey is redone), what a swing item is, and the leading-petty-officer side of sick crew: reporting rules, the ADA, the six pathogens the Food Code singles out, and how long an exposed cook stays restricted.

9. OCT11
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   Yeoman E-6 practice at headedin.com/navy/yn/e6: 28 more questions from DoD FMR Volume 7A chapter 26 on Family Separation Housing (who qualifies, the FSH-B and FSH-O rates, the 91st-day rule when the family visits) and on Government quarters (who assigns them, what counts as quarters, when the allowance stops and restarts, dependents in dormitories, safe havens, and quarters above the standard for the grade). 572 in all.

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   Yeoman E-6 practice at headedin.com/navy/yn/e6 grew to 544 with 38 questions on the Overseas Housing Allowance from DoD FMR Volume 7A chapter 26: the DD 2367, how rent is counted for sharers, relatives and homeowners (purchase price divided by 120), the caps with and without dependents, the utility allowance and climate codes, the five kinds of move-in housing allowance, and how an OHA advance is approved and paid back.

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   Yeoman E-6 practice at headedin.com/navy/yn/e6 now has 506 questions. The newest 27 finish the temporary lodging allowance chapter of DoD FMR Volume 7A: TLA while on TDY, in the hospital or on leave, a spouse married during the tour, the extra room charge for a late checkout, how TLA is computed in 15-day blocks from the per diem tables, and the half-meal rule when the temporary lodging has a real kitchen.

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   Yeoman E-6 practice at headedin.com/navy/yn/e6: 54 questions on overseas cost-of-living allowance and temporary lodging allowance from DoD FMR Volume 7A chapter 68: what the COLA index means, who counts as with or without a dependent overseas, when COLA starts and stops and the 30-day leave rule, reduced COLA when a galley and barracks are available, the TLA Authority and what a Sailor on TLA has to do, the first 60 days and the 15-day extensions, waiting for a ship at an overseas home port, and TLA Special. 479 in all.

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   Culinary Specialist E-5 practice grew from 171 to 225 questions (headedin.com/navy/cs): the why behind the galley rules, from the Food Code public health reasons: why the PIC is on deck every hour you are open, the four levels of a sick food employee and why typhoid and hepatitis A rank highest without symptoms, where germs hide on your hands and why the scrub time matters, why poultry cooks hotter than beef, what a charred roast hides, and why a partly cooked tray has to be marked.

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   Quartermaster E-6 practice grew from 722 to 783 questions (headedin.com/navy/qm/e6): more of the Bowditch glossary, from radar (sea return, side lobes, racon vs ramark, ARPA) and light characteristics (occulting vs flashing, red sectors) to chart scale, traffic separation schemes, set and drift, speed over ground vs speed made good, and the ice words a QM reports: growlers, bergy bits, leads, polynyas, ice blink and water sky.

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   Yeoman E-6 practice at headedin.com/navy/yn/e6 grew to 425 with 72 questions on housing allowances from DoD FMR Volume 7A chapter 26: who counts as a dependent and how much support keeps the with-dependent rate, the 90-day and 91-day custody visits, two Service members married to each other, BAH rate protection, the BAH advance and how it is repaid, BAH-Partial and BAH-Diff, which single Sailors on sea duty can draw BAH, and what happens to the allowance when a member is missing or confined.

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   Culinary Specialist E-6 practice grew from 81 to 168 questions (headedin.com/navy/cs/e6): how the inspector actually marks your galley on the DD 2973 and the field kitchen DD 2974, item by item (what N/A, N/O, COS and R mean, what counts as critical, the 44 F refrigerator right after a delivery), plus the rules for temporary, mobile and vending operations.

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   Yeoman E-6 practice at headedin.com/navy/yn/e6: 31 more questions on the arithmetic of family separation allowance from DoD FMR Volume 7A chapter 27: how the more-than-30 days is counted for TDY and for ships, constructive departure and return when leave is taken en route, what interrupts the count and what does not, back-to-back deployments and the 30-day interim, and when a ship moving to a nearby port counts as still being home. 353 in all.

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   Yeoman E-6 practice at headedin.com/navy/yn/e6 grew to 322 with 59 questions on hostile fire and imminent danger pay and the family separation allowance, from DoD FMR Volume 7A chapters 10 and 27: who certifies hostile fire and how the paperwork routes, overflight and transit rules, the three kinds of FSA, the 30-day and 3-month visit limits, the 50-mile and 90-minute commute tests, member-married-to-member, waivers and evacuations.

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   New level: Culinary Specialist E-6 (headedin.com/navy/cs/e6), 81 questions on the inspection side of the galley from the Tri-Service Food Code: when a HACCP plan is required, preoperational inspections and the authorization to operate, the five inspection types and how often each facility is inspected, how a DD 2973 inspection is rated, imminent health hazards and correction deadlines. CS E-5 also grew to 171 with field and deployment feeding. Every Navy rate on the site now has both E-5 and E-6.

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   Boatswain's Mate E-6 practice grew from 249 to 360 questions (headedin.com/navy/bm/e6): the Navy's tugs and towing ships from the Towing Manual (harbor tug classes, fenders, the ARS 50, T-ATF and new T-ATS), and shipboard heat stress and HAZMAT rules from NAVOSH afloat (WBGT surveys, PHEL stay times, the WBGT meters, labels, lockers, spill drills). Each answer links the page it comes from.

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   Boatswain's Mate E-5 practice (headedin.com/navy/bm): 21 wrong answers in the UNREP, davit and helm-order questions rewritten so the right answer is no longer the longest choice. No questions or source quotes changed.

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   Quartermaster E-6 practice grew from 656 to 722 questions (headedin.com/navy/qm/e6): the sailings from Bowditch Volume II (rhumb line vs great circle, why the great circle looks longer on a Mercator, composite sailing around ice, gnomonic charts, traverse tables) and time at sea (arc to time, zone descriptions, the date line, chronometer error).

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   Quartermaster E-5 practice grew from 607 to 730 questions (headedin.com/navy/qm): the working vocabulary from the Bowditch glossary, asked both ways. Fix vs running fix vs estimated position, danger angles and bearings, advance, transfer and tactical diameter, squat, MLLW and chart datum, flood vs ebb, spring vs neap, and the fog, front and wind terms on the METOC side.

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   Quartermaster E-6 practice grew from 552 to 656 questions (headedin.com/navy/qm/e6), from Bowditch Volume II: compass error and correcting, distance off by two bearings, doubling the angle and the seven-tenths rule, vertical sextant angles, radar horizon, when a light will first show and bobbing it, tide and tidal current predictions, and the barometer and humidity tables.

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   Quartermaster E-5 practice grew from 460 to 607 questions (headedin.com/navy/qm): the whole Medical Signal Code from Pub 102, the MAA to MVU groups asked both ways, how a doctor prescribes in three signals, and the body-region, disease and medicine tables. Each answer links the page it comes from.

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   Culinary Specialist practice grew from 77 to 130 questions (headedin.com/navy/cs): sanitizer strengths and contact times, bleach mixing for the three-compartment sink, cleaning schedules, handwashing sinks and backflow, galley lighting and ventilation, pest control and chemical storage, all from the Tri-Service Food Code on the CS bibliography.

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   New Navy rate: Culinary Specialist (headedin.com/navy/cs). 77 free CS E-5 practice questions on galley food safety, all from the Tri-Service Food Code that is on the CS bibliography: employee health and exclusions, handwashing, receiving temperatures, cooking, cooling, hot and cold holding, date marking, leftovers and dish machine temperatures. Each answer links the page it comes from. Six Navy rates now.

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   Boatswain's Mate E-5 practice grew again, from 334 to 432 questions (headedin.com/navy/bm): watchstanding and bridge equipment from the Seaman manual, including watch reliefs, readiness conditions, helm and engine orders, compasses and bearings, ship's lights, sound-powered phone circuits, and breakdown and man-overboard signals. Every answer ties to a checked quote.

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   Private pilot practice grew from 560 to 899 questions (headedin.com/pilot), and the test now covers the flying itself: takeoffs and landings on short and soft fields, slips and go-arounds, steep turns and ground reference, stalls and spins, emergency descents, engine failures, fires and system failures, preflight, engine start, taxi and night flying, all from the Airplane Flying Handbook. Also new, from the Aviation Weather Handbook and the AIM: the GFA tool, Convective Outlooks, haze and smoke, interception signals, lost procedures, diversions and flying out of a cloud you did not mean to enter. 45 of the 61 FAA ACS tasks now have questions; the rest are seaplane and multiengine.

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   Boatswain's Mate E-5 practice grew from 235 to 334 questions (headedin.com/navy/bm): honors and ceremonies from Navy Regulations ch. 12 (gun salutes, passing honors, side boys, ensign and pennant display, dressing ship) and the Towing Manual's chapter 1. Every answer is tied to a quote checked in the public source.

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   Dispatcher, mechanic and drone practice questions rebalanced: in our own questions the right answer was the longest choice more than half the time, which a sharp test-taker learns to exploit. 405 wrong answers were rewritten longer (headedin.com/dispatcher, /amt, /drone); no question, answer or source quote changed. Now the longest choice is right about as often as chance, like the other guides.

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   Navy Yeoman E-6 practice at headedin.com/navy/yn/e6 reaches 263 questions: 37 more from four MILPERSMAN articles and the last JAG manual forms on the YN1 bibliography. Emergency leave (funding isn't a factor, who decides), the officer OMPF field codes and who may see a record, house-hunting PTDY (10 days total, home port changes count, special liberty instead), PCS order execution (CIC, 30-day delay exceptions, NAVPTO, the 70-pound seabag), suspect rights and cleansing warnings, and what a search authorization can seize.

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   Navy Yeoman E-6 practice at headedin.com/navy/yn/e6 reaches 226 questions: 41 more on safeguarding classified information from the DoD security manual chapter new on the YN1 bibliography. SF 312 and need to know, emergency disclosure (report in 72 hours, 30 days at most), Congress and GAO access, SF 701/702/704, who can approve Top Secret work at home, working papers at 180 days, classified conference rules, foreign government record-keeping (5, 3 and 2 years) and ACCM.

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   Navy Yeoman E-6 practice at headedin.com/navy/yn/e6 reaches 185 questions: 35 more from the JAG manual's appendix of forms, new on the YN1 bibliography. NJP rights with and without the vessel exception (spokesperson, witnesses, open hearings, refusing NJP), the CO's hearing script and the preponderance standard, appeal rights (5 working days, two grounds, when a lawyer must review), summary court-martial limits, testimonial vs transactional immunity, victim jurisdiction preference and the 60-day CAAF window.

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   Navy Yeoman E-6 practice at headedin.com/navy/yn/e6 reaches 150 questions: 34 more from the two DoD pay regulation sections new on the YN1 bibliography. Adoption expense reimbursement ($2,000 per child, $5,000 a year, 180 days of active duty, final before you separate, DD 2675 within 2 years, what's covered and what isn't) and the Foreign Language Proficiency Bonus ($1,000 a month and $12,000 a year caps, 50 Reserve points, how the recertification date is figured, the 180-day grace period after a contingency, and must-pay career fields).

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   Fundamentals of Instructing (FOI) at headedin.com/foi grew from 60 to 405 of our own questions, written from every chapter of the FAA Aviation Instructor's Handbook: human behavior and motivation, the learning process and memory, communication, lesson plans and scenario-based training, assessment and critiques, instructor responsibilities and professionalism, and risk management. Three answer choices like the real test, a 50-question practice test weighted by topic, and every answer links its handbook page. The Parachute Rigger guide shows three choices now too.

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   Navy Yeoman E-6 practice at headedin.com/navy/yn/e6 reaches 116 questions: 46 more from the five evaluation manual chapters new on the YN1 bibliography. Not Observed reports (3 months max, PIMs under 10 days, up to three graded traits), EVALs for Sailors at foreign or civilian commands (letter reports, LTR and ASSIGNED blocks), admin changes vs supplements (2-year limit, two-page letters, no PMA changes after the exam month), statements to the record and their 10-day clocks, and appeals: ISIC review in 10 and 20 days, BCNR 4 months before a board, Article 138 within 90 days.

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   New: Navy Yeoman E-6 (YN1) practice at headedin.com/navy/yn/e6, 70 questions from the MILPERSMAN articles that are new on the YN1 bibliography. The CPPA program (primary duty, NEC A16A at E-4 and up, 1 per 200 members), PCS order phrases (HEREBY DETACHED in 24 hours, ON OR ABOUT 10 days either side, NET and NLT), what a command does for an absentee (24-hour checks, allotments stop on day 5, deserter at 30 days), separation reasons and entry-level rules, notification vs board procedure, and the civilian clothing allowance. Every answer links its MILPERSMAN page.

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   Navy Personnel Specialist E-6 practice at headedin.com/navy/ps/e6 reaches 522 questions: 93 more from the advancement manual and the ID card manual. Career Intermission returns (when selectees advance, PNA credit, day-for-day time in rate), frocking and declining advancement, the 2-year time-in-grade rule for E-7 to E-9, who can't advance, and withholding vs withdrawing a recommendation (who signs, who gets told, and how to appeal). Plus ID cards for out-of-wedlock children enrolled by VAP, legal custody wards, foster and pre-adoptive children, and stepchildren after divorce or a death.

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   Navy Personnel Specialist E-6 practice at headedin.com/navy/ps/e6 reaches 429 questions: 80 more from the DoD pay regulation's garnishment and CONUS COLA chapters. Statutory support allotments (what counts as disposable earnings, the 30-day consultation clock, the extra 5 percent at 12 weeks in arrears), the 60-day stay on a Treasury child support levy, involuntary allotments for commercial debts (DD 2653 and 2654, the 90-day notice, the exigencies defense and its appeal, the 25 percent cap, which pay is reachable and which isn't), and CONUS COLA start and stop dates for PCS, ships in dry dock, new accessions, custody, dependent visits, deferred travel, early return, missing status, confinement, hospitals, evacuations and Reserve orders.

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   Navy Personnel Specialist E-6 practice at headedin.com/navy/ps/e6 reaches 349 questions: 28 more on TSP and flexible spending accounts from the DoD pay regulation. Blended Retirement auto-enrollment at 5 percent after 60 days, the 1 percent automatic and up-to-4-percent match (matching starts at 24 months, vesting of the 1 percent at month 25, both end at 26 years), January re-enrollment, default L and G funds, Roth in a combat zone, and dependent care vs health care FSAs.

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   Navy Personnel Specialist E-6 practice at headedin.com/navy/ps/e6 reaches 321 questions: 34 more from three Reserve personnel manual articles on the PS1 bibliography. Reserve bonus limits (one 6-year or two back-to-back 3-year reenlistment bonuses), drill rules (48 paid periods, four-hour minimum, two a day, no crossing fiscal years, nine unfavorable drills and you're unsatisfactory), and Reserve special pays like dive, jump and demolition pay, FLPB and the $50 funeral honors stipend for retirees.

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   Navy Personnel Specialist E-6 practice at headedin.com/navy/ps/e6 reaches 287 questions: 33 more from five DoD pay regulation chapters on the PS1 bibliography. When an unearned bonus must be repaid (and when it never is), hardship duty pay types and caps, what pay can and can't be garnished for support and the 50/60 percent limits, the Savings Deposit Program's 10 percent on up to $10,000, and CONUS COLA for ships, dual-military couples and home port changes.

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   CFI written practice at headedin.com/cfi grew from 363 to 587 of our own questions: VFR rules and experience requirements from 14 CFR 61 and 91, traffic patterns and complex airplanes, multiengine VMC factors, engine and fuel systems, flight manuals and inspections, navigation and VOR checks, airport signs and lighting, airspace, weather briefings and advisories, ground operations, attitude flying and energy management, every question tagged with its FAA ACS code.

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   New: CFI written practice at headedin.com/cfi, for the FAA Flight Instructor Airplane knowledge test (FIA). 363 of our own questions: your instructor certificate's privileges, limits, records and renewal under the 2024 rule, every student endorsement you'll sign (with AC 61-65K wording), aerodynamics and load factor, and how to teach the takeoffs, landings, maneuvers, stalls and spins with the errors students make. Every answer links its handbook page or rule and carries its ACS code, plus a sign-off sheet for the CFI who trains you.

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   Navy Personnel Specialist E-6 practice at headedin.com/navy/ps/e6 reaches 254 questions: 35 more from the ID card manual chapters on the PS1 bibliography. Former spouse categories (20/20/20, 20/20/15, 10/20/10) and what each gets, temporary cards while eligibility is verified, newborn enrollment, students 21 to 23, incapacitated children, children born out of wedlock, and the dependent USID card for Reserve families.

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   Navy Personnel Specialist E-6 practice at headedin.com/navy/ps/e6 reaches 219 questions: 39 more from the Advancement Manual chapters on the PS1 bibliography. FMS factors and their caps (standard score 20 to 80, award, PNA and education points), ESVR statuses and who fixes what, time in service for E-2 to E-4, withholding and backdating advancements, effective and limiting dates, and how E-7 to E-9 selection boards and special selection boards work.

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   Navy Personnel Specialist E-6 practice at headedin.com/navy/ps/e6 reaches 180 questions: 45 more from four new PS1 references. AVAIL class codes and when to submit them (DM, DP, HUMS, 12-week graduation rule, brig releases), the PRISE-R prior-service Reserve program, officer resignation types and the 9-to-12-month window, and Reserve mobilization delays, deferments and exemptions with how a special cases board runs.

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   Navy Personnel Specialist E-6 practice at headedin.com/navy/ps/e6 grows to 135 questions: 56 more from four new PS1 references. Who can be kept past EAOS and for how long (foreign waters, PEBs, court-martial appeals, never for a debt), every high year tenure gate from E-1 to MCPON and what a waiver can and can't be for, the Voluntary Sea Duty Program and its extension limits, and casualty terms: DUSTWUN, VSI vs SI, notification hours, who directs disposition of remains, the death gratuity and SGLI.

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   New: Navy Personnel Specialist E-6 practice at headedin.com/navy/ps/e6, 79 questions from 13 MILPERSMAN articles that are new on the PS1 bibliography. Emergency leave and who counts as immediate family, how emergency leave travel is charged, the 97 percent and 4-working-day timeliness standard, ADSD math with lost time, the officer OMPF field codes, BCNR deadlines, military couple co-location (the 90-mile guide), twilight tours, spouse licensure reimbursement, early release for school and who gets full, half or no separation pay.

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   Commercial Pilot practice at headedin.com/commercial reaches 1,416 questions: 161 more from the Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge. The five hazardous attitudes and their antidotes, PAVE, CARE, TEAM, the 5 Ps and DECIDE, operational pitfalls like scud running and duck-under, composite and monocoque construction, trim, balance and antiservo tabs, T-tails and deep stalls, pitot-static blockages and altimeter errors, gyro and compass errors, the region of reversed command, and the takeoff and landing distance rules of thumb.

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   Navy Hospital Corpsman E-6 practice at headedin.com/navy/hm/e6 reaches 397 questions: 51 more from three new E-6 references. MEDIG command inspections (RFI vs supplemental findings, ISRs, closing findings within a year), the customer relations program and the DoD Patient Bill of Rights, and medical readiness training: TCCC levels for corpsmen, 3-year recertification, refreshers that do not recertify, and preventable death.

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   Commercial Pilot practice at headedin.com/commercial reaches 1,255 questions: 120 more from the Airplane Flying Handbook basics and the light-sport chapter. Preflight and fuel (dye colors, detonation, water in the sump), starting and taxi winds, risk and single-pilot resource management, turns, climbs and glides, energy management (the throttle sets total energy, the elevator splits it), and the light-sport rules: 1,320 pounds, 120 knots, no night for sport pilots. Every Airplane Flying Handbook chapter is now in the guide.

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   Navy Hospital Corpsman E-6 practice at headedin.com/navy/hm/e6 grows to 346 questions: 59 more from the 2022 Armed Forces Reportable Medical Events guide. Who must report and through which instruction, suspect vs probable vs confirmed, the incident rule, what not to report in DRSi, when an outbreak is reportable, heat and cold injury reporting, rabies PEP, and the common names of reportable diseases.

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   Navy Hospital Corpsman E-6 practice at headedin.com/navy/hm/e6 grows to 287 questions: 108 more from the 2023 Shipboard Pest Management Manual, new on the E-6 bibliography. German cockroach surveys, sticky traps and baits, stored products pests and the condemnation limits, rats, rat guards and trapping, bed bugs, quarantine and free pratique, DD 1532 reporting, pesticide label signal words and PPE. Every answer links its page.

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   Commercial Pilot practice at headedin.com/commercial grows to 1,135 questions: 133 more from the Airplane Flying Handbook transition chapters. Tailwheel taxiing, three-point and wheel landings and the ground loop; turboprop torque, ITT, beta range, hot and hung starts; jet spool-up, Mach tuck, coffin corner, swept-wing stalls, V1 and rejected takeoffs, the 1.67 runway rule and the stabilized approach. Every answer links its handbook page.

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   Navy Quartermaster E-6 practice at headedin.com/navy/qm/e6 grows to 552 questions: 153 more from the celestial chapters of Bowditch. Three-point fixes and danger angles by sextant, sextant parts, care and the four adjustments, altitude corrections (dip, refraction, semidiameter, parallax), time and chronometers, almanac twilight symbols, sight planning, HoMoTo and C-G-A, Polaris and amplitudes. Every answer links its Bowditch page.

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   The glasses page at headedin.com/glasses gets a SHORE card: look at the horizon from the boat or the beach and it names what you're facing, like "That's Fowey Rocks Lighthouse, 6.4 miles southeast." Lighthouses, the Skyway, water towers, keys, inlets and launch pads within 20 degrees of where your head points, the tall ones first; pinch to hear it. Same landmarks as headedin.com/shore, and your spot never leaves the phone.

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   Navy Hospital Corpsman E-6 practice at headedin.com/navy/hm/e6 grows to 179 questions: 37 more from the field preventive medicine chapter. Soakage pits, evaporation beds and grease traps, garbage burial and field incinerators, and a new disease control round: the chain of transmission, mechanical vs biological vectors, zoonoses, lice and scabies, venomous animals and Disease Alert Reports. Every answer links its page.

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   Paid study guides now come with a pass guarantee: pass 3 practice tests in a row in Captain's Ticket (per module), Drone Ticket or Ham Ticket, email each pass to yourself from the pass screen, and if you still fail the real exam you get the unlock price back. Proof and deadlines on the terms page.

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   Navy Hospital Corpsman E-6 practice at headedin.com/navy/hm/e6 grows to 142 questions: 65 more from two pubs new on the HM1 reading list. Field preventive medicine: chlorine residuals and superchlorination, iodine tablets in canteens, water testing, the four hour rule in a field mess, five-can dishwashing, cat holes, straddle trenches, burn barrels and urinoils. And radiological controls: ALARA, who runs the Navy radioactive materials permits, and lead aprons in dental. Every answer links its page.

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   Navy Hospital Corpsman E-6 practice is new at headedin.com/navy/hm/e6: 77 of our own questions from the heat and cold stress chapter of the Manual of Naval Preventive Medicine, new on the HM1 reading list. WBGT and the heat stress meters, flag conditions, PHELs, acclimatization, water and salt, heat stroke and rhabdo, cold weather watches, cold water survival and the HELP position, trench foot, frostbite and hypothermia. Every answer links its page in the manual.

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   Navy Yeoman E-5 practice at headedin.com/navy/yn grows to 1,092 questions: 83 more from the post-trial chapter of the Manual for Courts-Martial. The Statement of Trial Results, when forfeitures, reductions and confinement kick in, deferment and waived forfeitures for families, the 10-day and 7-day windows for clemency matters, suspension, vacation hearings, convening authority action, entry of judgment, the record of trial, sealed exhibits and waiving an appeal. Every answer links its page in the manual.

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   Commercial Pilot practice at headedin.com/commercial passes 1,000 questions (1,002): 42 more from the Aviation Weather Handbook on what moves the weather. The three circulation cells and the jet streams, pressure gradient, Coriolis and friction, sea, land, lake, valley and mountain breezes, gusts and tailwinds, air masses and lake effect snow, warm, cold, stationary and occluded fronts hour by hour, wave cyclones and the dryline.

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   Quartermaster E-5 practice at headedin.com/navy/qm grows from 405 to 460 questions: 55 new ones from Bowditch on ocean currents. Set vs drift, why wind drift runs 90 degrees off the wind, the Gulf Stream's indigo water and its cold wall off the Grand Banks, the Loop Current in the Gulf, rings and eddies, and the currents of every ocean. Every answer links the Bowditch page. 3,157 questions across the five rates.

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   Commercial Pilot practice at headedin.com/commercial grows to 960 questions: 81 more from the Aviation Weather Handbook. How clouds and precipitation form, hail, what aircraft radar misses (attenuation, beam width, overshooting, false echoes), tropical waves and hurricanes, Arctic ice fog and whiteout-style contrast loss, space weather and GPS, and reading surface and upper-air charts, the freezing level, CIP icing and the GFA tool.

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   Quartermaster E-6 practice at headedin.com/navy/qm/e6 grows from 303 to 399 questions: 96 new ones from Bowditch on emergency navigation and on waves, breakers and surf. What goes in the emergency nav kit, finding north with Polaris when the gyro is gone, measuring altitude with a ruler held at arm's length, dead water, rage seas, rip currents, and why the third to eighth tsunami wave is often the worst. Every answer links the Bowditch page. 3,102 questions across the five rates.

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   Commercial Pilot practice at headedin.com/commercial grows to 879 questions: 101 new ones on airport operations from the Airplane Flying Handbook's traffic pattern chapter and the Pilot's Handbook airport chapter. Pattern legs, entries from either side, when to turn crosswind, the mid-air collision facts, LAHSO, relocated thresholds, destination signs, stop bars, runway status lights, every tower light-gun signal, transponder and ADS-B basics, lost-radio arrivals, and where wake turbulence sits on takeoff and landing.

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   Quartermaster E-6 practice at headedin.com/navy/qm/e6 grows from 202 to 303 questions: 101 new ones on Pub 102's two-flag signals, asked both ways. CB, GW, RY, UW, QQ and the rest: abandon ship, fire, leaks, tows, anchoring, harbor, weather and ice signals, the complement tables, and the pratique signals for health clearance. Every answer links the Pub 102 page. 3,006 questions across the five rates.

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   Commercial Pilot practice at headedin.com/commercial grows to 778 questions: a second Chart room batch of 106 on the rest of the FAA test supplement. Sacramento, Fresno and San Francisco sectional excerpts (Class B, C and D limits, airport data blocks, MOAs and restricted areas), the Portland and Yakima en route charts (MEA, MOCA, MCA, MRA, changeover points, OROCA), every airport sign figure, three Chart Supplement pages with declared distances, and the surface prog and low-level significant weather charts.

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   Quartermaster E-5 practice at headedin.com/navy/qm grows from 305 to 405 questions: 100 new ones from Pub 102, the International Code of Signals. How a flag hoist is called, answered and spelled with substitutes, flashing light and radio procedure (AA AA AA, TTTT, RPT AB, INTERCO), how bearings, dates, positions and times are coded, the distress signals, what shore and SAR aircraft signals mean, and MAYDAY vs PAN vs SECURITE. Every answer links the Pub 102 page. 2,905 questions across the five rates.

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   Quartermaster E-5 practice at headedin.com/navy/qm grows from 189 to 305 questions: 116 new ones from Bowditch's chapters on ECDIS, navigation regulations and maritime safety systems. ECDIS modes, alarms and voyage recording, traffic separation schemes and vessel traffic services (including VTS Tampa), GMDSS sea areas, DSC and MMSI numbers, NAVTEX and SafetyNET, EPIRBs, AIS and SARTs. Every answer links the page it comes from.

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   Boatswain's Mate E-6 practice at headedin.com/navy/bm/e6 grows from 95 to 249 questions: 154 new ones from the Navy's public Seaman manual chapter on deck seamanship. Anchor types and chain, stoppers and markings, letting go and weighing anchor, davits and their safety devices, the accommodation ladder and boat booms, cargo handling, emergency breakaway and VERTREP, UNREP helmet colors, working aloft and over the side, the hand lead, line handling orders and standing rigging. Every answer links the page it comes from.

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   Yeoman practice at headedin.com/navy/yn passes 1,000 questions: 68 new ones from the Manual for Courts-Martial on the offenses a YN sees charged. Consent and threats under Article 120, indecent viewing and recording, and the Article 134 offenses: fraternization, gambling with a subordinate, dishonorable debts, disorderly and drunk, extramarital conduct, sexual harassment, self-injury and straggling, with the max punishment for each. Every answer links the page it comes from.

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   Quartermaster E-6 practice at headedin.com/navy/qm/e6 grows from 85 to 202 questions: 117 new ones from Bowditch's chapters on nautical charts, dead reckoning and navigation processes. Chart projections and scales, zones of confidence, chart dates and symbols, DR labels and fix expansion, bridge resource management and watch conditions, the Master-Pilot Exchange, fix and fathometer intervals, Night and Standing Orders and watch relief. Every answer links the page it comes from.

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   Boatswain's Mate practice at headedin.com/navy/bm grows to 235 BM E-5 questions (330 with E-6): 124 new ones on marlinspike and boats from the Navy's public Seaman manual. Line and synthetic line safety, tattletales, knots and splices, wire rope inspection, seizing and clips, canvas, boat crew duties, single-screw boat handling, heavy seas and the drogue, the ready lifeboat, boat etiquette, flagstaff insignia, night hails and compass error. Every answer links the page it comes from.

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   Commercial Pilot guide at headedin.com/commercial adds a takeoffs and landings area: 90 questions written from the Airplane Flying Handbook on the stabilized approach, the round out, go-arounds, slips, crosswind and gusty landings, short and soft fields, the power-off 180 accuracy approach, bounces, porpoising, hydroplaning and the crosswind, short-field and soft-field takeoffs. 672 in all, every answer linked to its handbook page.

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   Commercial Pilot guide at headedin.com/commercial: 75 new weather questions written from the FAA Aviation Weather Handbook. Turbulence and clear-air turbulence numbers, mountain waves and rotors, rime and clear ice and where icing lives, thunderstorm stages and severe criteria, fog types, stability, METAR codes, SIGMETs, AIRMETs and Center Weather Advisories, winds aloft and TAF rules. 582 in all, every answer linked to its handbook page.

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   Commercial Pilot guide at headedin.com/commercial now has a Chart room: 23 figures from the FAA's own commercial test supplement (stall speed tables, the Vg diagram, glide chart, climb and cruise tables, wind component, obstacle takeoff and landing charts, weight-and-balance graphs, airport signs) with 91 questions we wrote on them, every number worked in the answer. 507 in all.

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   Tonight overhead at headedin.com/sky now catches Starlink trains: for a week or so after a launch, a fresh batch flies low and close together as a line of dots sliding across the sky. The page finds the batches that are still low and bunched, says when the line goes over your spot, which way it comes from and how many minutes it takes to pass, and when none is up it says so and names the next Starlink launch from the Cape.

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   Name that shore at headedin.com/shore now names the inlets and passes too: 55 of them around Florida, from St. Marys Entrance, Ponce and Sebastian to Haulover, Government Cut, Johns Pass, Boca Grande and East Pass in Destin. Each one sits where the pass meets open water, so the camera points at the jetties and the break, not the bay behind them, with how far off it is.

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   New study guide: Commercial Pilot (Airplane) written test at headedin.com/commercial. 416 of our own questions written from the FAA Pilot's Handbook, Airplane Flying Handbook and 14 CFR 61, 91 and 119: the commercial rules and who may fly for hire, complex airplanes (constant-speed props, turbocharging, retractable gear), chandelles, lazy eights and eights on pylons, spins, high-altitude oxygen and pressurization, emergencies, night and multiengine. Every answer links its page or rule and carries its ACS code; the practice test is the real shape, 100 questions in 2.5 hours at 70%, with a score report, the FAA's most-missed codes and a printable sign-off sheet for your CFI.

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   Quartermaster practice at headedin.com/navy/qm: 83 questions from Bowditch on GPS (why a fix needs four satellites, what DGPS and WAAS fix and when WAAS can fool you), radar (which echoes are false, why ranges beat bearings, how a sand beach hides) and tides and currents (datums, bores, hydraulic currents, why slack is not high water). Every answer links the Bowditch page. 274 QM questions, 2,226 across the five rates.

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   Yeoman practice at headedin.com/navy/yn: 67 questions on the punitive articles a YN types up most, from desertion and willful disobedience to larceny, assault, drug offenses, drunk driving, threats, perjury and conduct unbecoming: what each one needs, what it does not, and the maximum punishments. Every answer links the page of the Manual for Courts-Martial. 941 Yeoman questions, 2,143 across the five rates.

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   Private pilot practice at headedin.com/pilot adds the FAA's load factor chart and its takeoff and landing distance graphs: 12 new questions, from how much a 60° bank loads the wings to working the graphs in the right order. Chart room now has 17 FAA figures. 560 in all.

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   Yeoman practice at headedin.com/navy/yn: 27 sentencing questions from the Manual for Courts-Martial (what goes in front of the judge from the service record, forfeiture rules, which discharges a court can give, how the sentence is announced). 874 in all.

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   Name that shore at headedin.com/shore: hold your phone up from the boat or the beach and the camera view names what is on the horizon, from lighthouses and the Sunshine Skyway to water towers, keys, drawbridges and the Cape's launch pads and VAB, with how far off each one is. Tap a name and it reads it out. Pick your eye height (beach, boat, pier, balcony) and it only shows what you could really see. Free, and your camera and location stay on your phone.

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   Private pilot practice tests at headedin.com/pilot now run like the real thing: 65 questions in 2 hours, 5 of them quietly unscored trial questions, just as the FAA does it. Your score counts the other 60, and the result screen shows which 5 were the trial ones.

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   Yeoman practice at headedin.com/navy/yn: 27 questions from the JAGMAN on line of duty records and death investigations (deadlines, casualty office updates, release to next of kin, SBP). The YN JAGMAN chapters are now covered. 847 in all.

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   Private pilot practice at headedin.com/pilot now hands you the FAA's own test charts: 27 new questions worked on the density altitude chart, weight and balance tables, cruise power table, crosswind graph, landing distance table and the airspeed indicator, each with the math shown. All 7 figures are in the Chart room too. 548 in all.

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   Yeoman practice at headedin.com/navy/yn: 27 questions from the JAGMAN after-trial rules (suspending sentences, Article 69 reviews, waiving appeals, swapping a punitive discharge, debts against final pay, education payback). 820 in all.

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   Private pilot practice at headedin.com/pilot now reads like the FAA's own score report: every question carries its ACS knowledge code, and a practice test ends with the codes you missed, ready for your instructor. New FAA's most missed round on the four codes test takers miss most, with 27 new questions on instrument errors and postflight write-ups. 521 in all.

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   Tonight overhead at headedin.com/sky: a free night sky page for anchored boats and beach nights. Pick your spot and it says which planets are up and where to look, slides a sky chart from dusk to dawn, and lists when the Space Station, China's space station and the Hubble telescope fly over in the next 3 nights (Hubble passes over Florida but not most of the country). Night launches from the Cape show up with which way to look, and an I saw it button sends the brag.

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   Yeoman practice at headedin.com/navy/yn: 26 questions from the JAGMAN pretrial and trial rules (individual military counsel requests, convening orders, reservist holdover, plea agreements, immunity, what can be released to the press). 793 in all.

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   Golden hour planner at headedin.com/sun: pick any Florida beach (or tap the map) and any date for golden hour, blue hour, sunrise and sunset, which way the sun sets drawn on the map, a month of sunset times, a one-tap calendar add with a 30-minute heads-up, and a sunset report to send the crew. Worked out on your phone, free.

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   Rain check at headedin.com/radar: a free Florida radar page. Tap your spot and it says when the rain gets there and from which way, plus the nearest lightning in the last 30 minutes, with a line to send the crew. The last 50 minutes of NOAA radar as a loop, rain ahead up to 6 hours, wind barbs and the Weather Service's warning outlines. No app, no sign-up.

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   Storm watch at headedin.com/hurricane: a free live hurricane tracker straight from the National Hurricane Center. Every active storm's cone, track, watches and warnings on one map, the 7-day outlook odds, and how far each storm is from your Florida town in miles and mph, with a line you can send to the group chat.

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   Instrument Rating guide at headedin.com/instrument now draws on the Aeronautical Information Manual too: 28 new questions on pilot's discretion, expedite, readbacks, void times and hold for release, cleared as filed, departure areas, position reports and visual approaches, each linked to its AIM paragraph. 818 in all.

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   Instrument Rating Chart room at headedin.com/instrument adds an en route low chart (MEA, MOCA, MCA, MRA, OROCA), the Bonham Six arrival into DFW and the Portland airport diagram: 26 more questions we wrote on them, 10 charts and 790 questions in all.

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   Yeoman practice at headedin.com/navy/yn: 21 post-trial questions from the JAGMAN (Statement of Trial Results, witness fees, forfeitures, entry of judgment, record of trial deadlines). 767 in all.

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   Instrument Rating guide at headedin.com/instrument now has a Chart room: the FAA test supplement's own approach plates (Grand Junction, Addison, Des Moines), the Grand Junction Six departure, VASI and PAPI lights and airport signs, with 56 questions we wrote on them. 764 in all.

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   Yeoman practice at headedin.com/navy/yn: 17 questions from the JAGMAN courts-martial part (who convenes, reservists and retirees, pretrial confinement review, victim input). 746 in all.

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   New study guide: Instrument Rating (Airplane) written test at headedin.com/instrument. 708 of our own questions written from the FAA Instrument Flying Handbook, Instrument Procedures Handbook, Aviation Weather Handbook and 14 CFR 61/91, every answer linked to the page or rule, 60-question practice tests at the 70% mark and a Pass Meter.

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   Yeoman practice at headedin.com/navy/yn: 18 questions on referring, serving, changing and withdrawing court-martial charges (R.C.M. 601-604, 2024 Manual for Courts-Martial). 729 in all.

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   Yeoman practice at headedin.com/navy/yn: 22 questions on pretrial restraint and pretrial confinement from the 2024 Manual for Courts-Martial (who may order it, the 24/48/72-hour and 7-day clocks, credit for violations). 711 in all.

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   The private pilot sign-off sheet at headedin.com/pilot/signoff.html now lists each area's FAA ACS code (the codes your real score report prints), the four codes the FAA says most people miss on the PAR test with how well you know each, and a readiness check before you book.

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   Private pilot practice at headedin.com/pilot now gives three answer choices per question, the same A/B/C format as the real FAA test, and a new instructor sign-off sheet: your results by knowledge area plus the FAA endorsement wording, ready to print for your CFI.

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   Yeoman practice at headedin.com/navy/yn: 24 more evaluation questions from the EVALMAN overview for COs and raters (trait grade meanings, who signs what, counseling, statements, retention). The YN2 eval manual is now fully covered. 689 in all.

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   Yeoman practice at headedin.com/navy/yn: 20 questions on moving a mobile home on PCS orders, from the May 2026 Joint Travel Regulations (the exact issue on the bibliography). 665 in all.

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   Yeoman practice at headedin.com/navy/yn: 22 more evaluation questions from the EVALMAN (Concurrent and Concurrent/Regular reports, students on duty under instruction, reservists on temporary active duty). 645 in all.

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   Personnel Specialist practice at headedin.com/navy/ps now covers every public reference on the March 2027 PS2 bibliography: 23 more Navy Reserve questions from RESPERSMAN 1100-030 (officer bonuses), 1100-050 (strength gains) and 1300-010 (SELRES billet assignments). 431 in all.

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    Personnel Specialist practice at headedin.com/navy/ps passes 400: 18 Navy Reserve questions from RESPERSMAN 1300-030 (Voluntary Training Units) and 1900-010 (strength losses, CHCBP, retirement request timing). 408 in all.

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    Personnel Specialist practice at headedin.com/navy/ps adds 18 manning questions from BUPERSINST 1080.54B, the enlisted distribution and verification process (MNA alignments, PG vs TG, AMM role, requisitions, pay grade excess). 390 in all.

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    Personnel Specialist practice at headedin.com/navy/ps adds 12 flight pay questions from DoD FMR Vol 7A chapter 22 (HDIP flight hours, grace periods, AvIP and CSIP limits). 372 in all.

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    Personnel Specialist practice at headedin.com/navy/ps adds 18 questions on the Joint Travel Regulations definitions (May 2026): premium class, acquired dependents, City Pair fares, CONUS, dependent age rules and more. 360 in all.

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    New free study guide for the FAA private pilot airplane written test (PAR) at headedin.com/pilot: 494 practice questions we wrote ourselves across all twelve knowledge areas of the FAA's Private Pilot Airplane ACS, from the Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge, 14 CFR parts 61 and 91, and the FAA's own sectional-chart test figures. Every answer links the exact handbook page or regulation it was checked against, the Chart room has the real test charts to pan and zoom, and the practice tests are the real shape: 60 questions, 2 hours, 70% to pass. On Ticket Booth with the other FAA guides.

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    Personnel Specialist practice at headedin.com/navy/ps adds 16 evacuation-allowance questions from JTR chapter 6 (May 2026): safe haven vs designated place, advances, and the 100/60 and 50/30 percent safe haven rates. 342 in all.

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    Personnel Specialist practice at headedin.com/navy/ps adds 18 questions from chapters 1 and 6 of the May 2026 Joint Travel Regulations: the travel-responsibly rules, AO authorize vs approve, and who can order an evacuation. 326 in all.

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    Personnel Specialist practice at headedin.com/navy/ps adds 16 TDY travel questions from chapter 2 of the May 2026 Joint Travel Regulations, the exact issue on the bibliography (per diem, transportation modes, rest stops, canceled TDY). 308 in all.

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    Personnel Specialist practice at headedin.com/navy/ps adds 20 questions from the DoD Financial Management Regulation on leave payout and separation pay, overseas COLA and temporary lodging allowance, and housing allowances, each linked to its page. 292 in all.

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    Personnel Specialist practice at headedin.com/navy/ps adds 24 MILPAY questions from the DoD Financial Management Regulation: family separation allowance, hostile fire and imminent danger pay, discretionary allotments and SGLI, each linked to its page. 272 in all.

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    Personnel Specialist practice at headedin.com/navy/ps adds 22 questions on the advancement worksheet and billet-based advancement from BUPERSINST 1430.16H (EAW deadlines, award points, the RKE, A2P and CA2P), each linked to its page. 248 in all.

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    Hospital Corpsman practice at headedin.com/navy/hm adds 20 questions on Navy Medicine's augmentation program from BUMEDINST 6440.5D (the NAVMED 6440/1 checklist, 30-day and 48-hour deadlines, the 90-day non-deployable rule, platform precedence), each linked to its page. 374 in all.

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    Hospital Corpsman practice at headedin.com/navy/hm adds 22 questions on field and deployment food safety from the Tri-Service Food Code chapter 9 (kitchen siting distances, handwashing, chlorine checks, frozen, cold and hot holding temperatures), each linked to its page. 354 in all.

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    Hospital Corpsman practice at headedin.com/navy/hm adds 22 questions on suitability screening and the Exceptional Family Member Program from BUMEDINST 1300.2B (screening deadlines, who may screen, SSC and EFMP coordinator rules, the forms), each linked to its page. 332 in all.

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    Hospital Corpsman practice at headedin.com/navy/hm passes 300: 24 new questions on the Periodic Health Assessment and medical readiness from SECNAVINST 6120.3A (the six IMR elements, overdue rules, readiness labs, dental classes, deployment-limiting conditions), each linked to its page.

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    Hospital Corpsman practice at headedin.com/navy/hm is up to 286 questions: 26 new ones on shipboard sewage systems from NAVMED P-5010-7 (CHT and VCHT, spill cleanup and disinfection, hydrogen sulfide in MSD pump rooms, the MDR duties), each linked to its page.

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    Hospital Corpsman practice at headedin.com/navy/hm reaches 260 questions: 28 new ones on shipboard pest control and pesticide first aid from NAVMED P-5010-8 (vectors, certification, signal words, organophosphate vs carbamate poisoning, German cockroaches), each linked to its page.

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    Hospital Corpsman practice at headedin.com/navy/hm now has 232 questions: 27 more from NAVOSH afloat on asbestos and heat stress (the WBGT formula, survey and stay-time rules, the MDR duties), each linked to its page.

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    Hospital Corpsman practice at headedin.com/navy/hm grows to 205 questions: 41 new ones on hearing conservation, sight protection and respirators from NAVOSH afloat (OPNAVINST 5100.19F), the chapters on the HM E-5 bibliography, each linked to its page.

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    Yeoman joins the Navy advancement practice: headedin.com/navy/yn has 623 YN E-5 questions from the Correspondence, Directives, Records and Awards manuals, the EVALMAN, the MCM and JAGMAN, the security manuals, MILPERSMAN, the DoD FMR and the JTR, each answer linked to its source page. Free.

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    Personnel Specialist and Hospital Corpsman join the Navy advancement practice: headedin.com/navy/ps has 226 PS E-5 questions from MILPERSMAN and BUPERS/OPNAV instructions, and headedin.com/navy/hm has 164 HM E-5 questions from BUMED instructions and NAVMED P-5010, each answer linked to its source page. QM, BM, PS and HM switch at the top. Free.

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    Boatswain's Mate joins the Navy advancement practice: headedin.com/navy/bm has 111 BM E-5 and 95 BM E-6 questions we wrote from the public references on the March 2027 bibliography (Seaman manual, Navy Towing Manual, SORM, NAVOSH afloat, Navigation Rules, Navy Regulations), each answer linked to its source page. Switch between QM and BM at the top. Free.

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    Navy Quartermaster advancement practice at headedin.com/navy/qm: 106 QM E-5 and 85 QM E-6 questions we wrote from the public references on the March 2027 bibliography (Navigation Rules, Bowditch, Pub 102, Chart No. 1, Navy Regulations, the deck log instruction), each answer linked to its source page, plus practice tests and a Pass Meter. Free.

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    headedin.com/skt adds the Navy and Coast Guard: pick Navy, your rate and E-5, E-6 or E-7 to see that rate's Navy advancement bib for the March 2027 and January 2027 exams (all 85 rates), with a public link wherever one exists and a checklist. Coast Guard explains why the SWE has no public list and links the final multiple calculator.

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    headedin.com/skt now covers 11 Air Force career fields: Security Forces, Contracting, Logistics Plans, Traffic Management, Air Transportation, Public Affairs, Safety and Aviation Resource Management join ATC, Airfield Management and Weather. Exact SKT chapters from the 2026 WAPS catalogs, with links and a checklist.

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    Air Force SKT reading lists at headedin.com/skt: pick Air Traffic Control, Airfield Management or Weather and SSgt or TSgt to see the exact publications and chapters from the 2026 WAPS catalog, with links and a checklist that stays on your phone.

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    Passed FCC Element 1? The Marine Radio Operator Permit guide now sends you straight to the free VHF card at headedin.com/captain/vhf: tap Make my VHF card under I passed for channels, NOAA weather and a MAY DAY script with your boat in it.

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    Passed your ham exam? The Ham, General and Extra guides now point you to the free Morse trainer at headedin.com/ham/morse right under I passed. Technicians can already send Morse on 80, 40 and 15 meters. Tap Learn Morse free.

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    IS-100 en español at headedin.com/ics/es: all 43 ICS 100 practice questions in Spanish, with the English ICS terms beside them, because FEMA's final exam is in English. Same Pass Meter, practice tests and flip cards, every screen in Spanish.

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    ICS team card at headedin.com/ics/group: ARES, CERT and other volunteer team leaders put their team's name on a free card that lists the four FEMA courses most groups ask for, how to get the free FEMA SID, and a QR code to free practice. Print it for the next meeting or send the link to the group chat. The name stays on your device.

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    FEMA study guides got bigger at headedin.com/ics: 59 more practice questions across IS-100, IS-200, IS-700 and IS-800 (now 43, 45, 39 and 41), from ICS facilities and the Planning P to EOC activation levels and who runs each Emergency Support Function. Every one is our own, checked word for word against FEMA's NIMS and National Response Framework.

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    Which way is up? at headedin.com/whichwayup: a free instrument-reading game. Read the attitude indicator and compass and call what the airplane is doing, 25 in 5 minutes (the pace of the Air Force officer test's instrument section), then share your score card. Our own drawings, endless questions.

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    Coast Guard SWE final multiple calculator at headedin.com/finalmultiple: put in your dates, evaluation points, awards and sea time and see your final multiple out of 200 before the exam, then type a cutoff to see the exam score you'd need to make the list. Built from the Coast Guard's advancement manual and the 2022 sea-point changes, with the BM1 OIC board points included. Numbers stay on your phone.

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    Pilot test retake rules at headedin.com/retakes: the Navy/Marine/Coast Guard ASTB-E, the Air Force AFOQT and the Army SIFT side by side. How many tries you get, how long to wait, which score counts (newest, best, or locked at a pass), when to guess on each section, and a calculator for your earliest retest day.

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    Water jobs from your ASVAB at headedin.com/waterjobs: type in your ASVAB scores and see which Navy jobs on the water they open (Boatswain's Mate, Quartermaster, Engineman and 7 more), checked against the Navy's own October 1, 2026 rating list with the math shown, plus the Coast Guard boat jobs. Each job links to the captain's, engine-room or radio license your sea time can count toward after you get out, and the free study guide for it.

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    Cruise ships out of Miami and Fort Lauderdale too: ask your AI which ships sail from PortMiami or Port Everglades tonight and it answers from the ports' own schedules (Miami-Dade County's dock report has the hour), then tells you when each one slides past South Pointe Park or the Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson park on the inlet. Coming in the next app update to the Sail-away spotter.

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    Captain's Ticket now tells you why: every Rules of the Road question, plus most of the six-pack (OUPV), Great Lakes and inland, and 100-ton deck, safety and navigation tests, explains the answer in plain English and quotes its source: the exact Rule from the Navigation Rules handbook, the Coast Guard Boat Crew Seamanship Manual, Bowditch or the federal regulation, right after you answer and in your missed list. Free at headedin.com/captain.

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    Captain's Ticket adds the First Class Pilot license, the pilots who bring ships into port. With it, every Coast Guard deck and engine exam that has written sample questions now has a free guide at headedin.com/captain, from the six-pack to Master unlimited.

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    Captain's Ticket now runs all the way to the top: Master / Chief Mate of any tonnage (Near Coastal and Oceans) and Master of Unlimited Tonnage on the Great Lakes, the license that commands any ship. 115 more questions from the August 2026 Coast Guard sample tests, free at headedin.com/captain (Ships of any size) and on the Hall Pass shelf On the big ships.

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    Captain's Ticket heads out to the oil rigs: all seven Coast Guard MODU endorsements, Offshore Installation Manager (unrestricted, surface units and bottom-bearing units, underway and on location), Barge Supervisor and Ballast Control Operator. 227 more questions from the August 2026 Coast Guard sample tests, free at headedin.com/captain (Offshore drilling rigs) and on the Hall Pass shelf On the rigs.

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    Captain's Ticket goes to sea on the big ships: Second Mate / Third Mate of any tonnage (Near Coastal and Oceans) and Mate of Unlimited Tonnage on the Great Lakes, the license academy cadets sit. 114 more questions from the August 2026 Coast Guard sample tests, free at headedin.com/captain (Ships of any size) and on the Hall Pass shelf On the big ships.

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    Captain's Ticket goes up the river: every Coast Guard river deck license, from Master 100 ton to Master of any tonnage, plus the 100-to-200-ton river upgrade. 159 more questions from the August 2026 Coast Guard sample tests, free at headedin.com/captain (River licenses) and on the Hall Pass shelf On the river.

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    24 more Coast Guard licenses get their own free practice-test page (headedin.com/captain/master-200-ton-near-coastal and friends): 200 ton, 500/1600 ton, the upgrades, Limited OUPV, offshore supply vessel and fishing vessel officers, each with its modules, pass marks and 10 sample questions, so people searching for their exact license land on it.

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    The Morse code trainer at headedin.com/ham/morse adds Send it: work an on-screen key (or the space bar), hear your own sidetone, and it reads back what you sent letter by letter, then grades your fist: your speed and how your dahs measure against your dits.

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    Hall Pass (headedin.com/tickets) now shelves the free guides that have no exam too: the GMRS radio guide and the Morse code trainer under On the radio.

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    New free air traffic controller guide at headedin.com/atc, because the FAA is hiring: how you get hired (under 31, USAJOBS, the ATSA test, the Academy in Oklahoma City, the pay), a drill on how controllers actually talk (22 kinds of calls, from altitudes to hold short and go around) with every answer checked against the FAA's own controller handbook, and a radar game where you keep the planes 3 miles or 1,000 feet apart, with a card for your best score. Plus Skills practice: timed rounds of reading dials, judging angles, controller-style quick math and scanning a scope, for the kinds of skills the FAA hiring test measures (practice, not real test questions).

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    Captain's Ticket adds the offshore supply and fishing vessel officer licenses: Master/Chief Mate and Mate of Offshore Supply Vessels (the Gulf oil-patch supply boats) and Master and Mate of Uninspected Fishing Industry Vessels, Near Coastal and Oceans. Free at headedin.com/captain.

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    Coming in the next app update: a drone flight log that fills itself in. Tap LAUNCH and it writes down where you took off, the time, the wind and whether it is day, civil twilight or night by the FAA's own definition (with the lighting rule when it is not daytime); tap LANDED and it times the flight. It counts battery cycles, shows how long until your Part 107 recurrent and registration run out, makes a pilot card to share, and exports a spreadsheet. On your phone only. Under More > Flying a drone.

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    Coming in the next app update: the Engine log keeps every job you do as a service history (date, engine hours, who did it, cost, a note), takes past work from your notebook or shop invoices, and makes a service record you can hand a buyer: a printable page or a spreadsheet, shared from your phone. No account, nothing to keep paying for, and it shows how much of your schedule you kept.

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    Captain's Ticket goes up to 1600 tons: Master and Mate less than 500-1600 GRT, Near Coastal, Oceans and Inland, plus one-module upgrades for tug captains (Master of Towing Vessels to Master 500 ton) and Second Mates. 587 more Coast Guard sample questions from the August 2026 tests, free at headedin.com/captain.

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    Captain's Ticket now goes past 100 ton: Master or Mate 200 ton (Near Coastal and Inland), the one-module upgrades from 100 ton or a six-pack, and the Limited six-pack for one lake, river or harbor. 355 more Coast Guard sample questions from the August 2026 tests, free at headedin.com/captain.

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    New free GMRS starter guide at headedin.com/gmrs, for the day your license email lands: all 22 channels and the repeater pairs with the FCC power limits, why privacy codes aren't private, how to get on a repeater, when to say your call sign (we spell yours out), what the rules allow, and a call sign card to share. One $35 license covers the whole family.

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    Coming in the next app update: the Radio card under More. The VHF channels in plain English (leave it on 16, talk on 68), the radio words, and the MAY DAY, PAN PAN and Securite calls written out with your boat name spelled the Coast Guard way and your position filled in. Works with no signal, and the no-signal Help screen opens it.

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    New free VHF card at headedin.com/captain/vhf: type your boat in once and the Mayday, Pan-pan and Securite calls read back in big print with your name, size, color and people aboard filled in, plus channels 16, 9, 13, 22A and 68 to 72 in plain English and the NOAA weather channels. Print it and tape it by the radio.

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    New free Morse code trainer at headedin.com/ham/morse: learn CW by ear the Koch way. Letters at full speed from day one, a new one each time you copy 90%, real on-air words like CQ, 73 and 5NN once you know the letters, a tap-to-hear chart, and a card to share how many of the 41 you have.

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    Off the ship at 8, flying at 4? Ask your AI and it now hands you a debark day from our picks: a few good stops near the port, trimmed so you're at the airport 2 hours before your flight (3 if you're flying abroad), with the time to leave. Coming in the next app update: Off the Ship, the same plan with a leave-for-the-airport countdown and reminders.

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    Which side of the plane? Ask your AI before you pick a seat and it now hands you our answer: the big sights out each window between two US airports, in order, like Lake Okeechobee, the Sunshine Skyway or the Outer Banks. Coming in the next app update: Window seat, the flight map that works in airplane mode, with your altitude, your speed, the state under you and a heads-up when the next sight is coming up, all with no Wi-Fi.

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    Wave off a cruise ship: ask your AI which ships sail from Port Canaveral or Port Tampa Bay tonight and it tells you when they leave, straight from the ports' own schedules, and when each one slides past Jetty Park, Sparkman Wharf or under the Skyway. Coming in the next app update: the Sail-away spotter, with a heads-up 10 minutes before and a ship log for every one you wave off from the pier.

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    Ask your AI what flag is flying at the beach and it can now tell you: the flag lifeguards reported this morning at the nearest beaches (red, double red, purple and the rest), what time they reported it, the water temperature, and whether they saw rip currents, jellyfish or red tide. It comes from Mote Marine Laboratory's beach reports, about twice a day at 131 beaches, and never calls the water safe. Coming in the next app update: the same card at the top of Beach flags.

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    Ask your AI for a Florida bucket list and it can now hand you ours: the Florida Passport, 55 stamps on 11 region pages, from Mile Marker 0 and Coral Castle to a spring swim, Skunk Ape HQ and the spot where your phone jumps an hour. Give it where you are and it names the closest stamps and exactly where to stand. Coming in the next app update: the Passport itself, where a stamp only counts when you're standing there.

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    Our AI connector speaks Spanish and Portuguese: when a visitor from Brazil, Colombia, Argentina or Mexico asks their AI for things to do, a cruise shore day or the nearest beach from the airport, every one of our 247 Florida picks now comes back described in their language (lang=es or lang=pt), with the place names as they are on the sign. Coming in the next app update: an English | Español | Português switch at the top of Local, so Plan a day, Picks and Spin read in your language too, down to the send-a-friend text and the calendar event.

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    Past trips on the family link: the view-only page your family opens from a text now lists your finished trips from the last 30 days, with when you left and got back, whether you were back on time, and any alert they were texted. Only trips that person got a text about, times only, never where you went. Someone set to emergency texts only sees an alert count instead of an on-time record. English and Spanish.

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    Spaced reviews in every study guide on Hall Pass (Ham, Drone, GROL, the FAA and FEMA guides and the rest): a question you got right comes back after 10 minutes, then 1, 3, 7 and 21 days, the same Leitner schedule Captain's Ticket already used. Study 10 now mixes misses, reviews that are due and new ones, and a new Review due button shows how many came back today. Hall Pass shows the due count on each ticket. Everything stays in your browser.

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    Zero bars gets a "Got it": check in by text with no data (satellite texting on iPhone 14 and newer, and T-Satellite phones on any US carrier) and our server now texts you back "Got it" so you know it went through. Coming in the next app update: a More > Zero bars screen that checks what your phone can do, and builds marked satellite-ready on iPhone and Android that send your trip only, in small pieces, on a carrier satellite data link.

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    Checked in by text shows on the family page: when the boater's phone has no data and they text HI OK with their trip code, the page the family follows now says so and when, with a satellite icon. A plain text is what works with no bars, including satellite texting on newer iPhones.

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    Ask your AI when to go fishing: our free AI connector now answers with the Bite Score for anywhere in Florida waters, 1 to 10 for today and the next two weeks from the moon, NOAA tides, wind and pressure, plus the best-bite hours and this week's two best days. The glasses page and Headed Back on Alexa say it too, near the coast.

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    21 more true stories on the map: the Spanish monastery shipped to North Miami Beach in 11,000 crates, the Arabian Nights city of Opa-locka, the Japanese pineapple colony at Delray Beach, Treaty Oak and its made-up treaty, Rockefeller's dimes in Ormond, where Tarzan was filmed at Wakulla Springs and the Possum Capital of the World, plus how nine more towns got their names (Mount Dora, Lakeland, Palatka, Cudjoe Key and more).

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    Study guides now unlock for good with one payment, no subscription: Captain's Ticket $19, Part 107 Drone $9.99, Ham radio $4.99. Daily rounds, the Brig, the drills and the Pass Meter stay free for everyone, and your first practice test is free too. Secure checkout by Stripe.

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    Three more of our own engine drawings in Captain's Ticket: a diaphragm-actuated control valve, an air relay valve (applied and released) and an engine overspeed trip with its shutdown levers. 165 of the 561 picture questions now show a drawing.

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    Four more of our own engine drawings in Captain's Ticket: a computer control block diagram, an engine fuel system with day tank, unit injector plunger positions and a two-stroke V engine cross-section. 153 of the 561 picture questions now show a drawing.

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    Four more of our own engine-room drawings in Captain's Ticket: an oily-water separator, a turbocharged intake and exhaust, and two V-engine cross-sections. 133 of the 561 picture questions now show a drawing right in the question.

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    Captain's Ticket has its first hand-drawn study diagrams: our own drawings of a disc-type lube oil strainer, an engine fresh water cooling system, a pneumatic clutch and speed control system and a single zone air conditioning system, labeled to match the Coast Guard's questions (35 more picture questions you can study without leaving the page).

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    Captain's Ticket now shows 32 engine-room drawings right in the question (gas turbines, steam governors, diesel timing, firefighting gear) for 72 picture questions. They come from U.S. Navy, Army and Maritime Administration manuals, which are public domain, so we can show them with credit; the rest still open on the Coast Guard's own page.

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    Captain's Ticket engine-officer guides now include the picture questions: 561 more questions where a button opens the drawing on its page of the Coast Guard's free sample exam. The drawings are textbook art we can't copy, so we link to the Coast Guard's own copy instead.

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    Captain's Ticket now has every Coast Guard engine-officer exam: First and Third Assistant Engineer Unlimited, DDE Unlimited, and Chief and Assistant Engineer for offshore supply vessels (OSV), fishing vessels (UFIV) and drill rigs (MODU). 1104 more questions from the National Maritime Center's 9/2026 sample exams, text questions only, free at headedin.com/captain.

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    Every study guide now has a free practice-test page: the FCC radio exams (GROL, radar, GMDSS), the FAA A&P, IA, Dispatcher, FOI and Rigger tests, 11 FEMA courses and the US citizenship civics test. Each shows how the real test works and 10 sample questions.

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    Free practice-test pages for the Part 107 drone test and all three ham radio exams (Technician, General, Amateur Extra): how the real test works, what is on it, and 10 sample questions to try before you open the study guide.

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    Every Coast Guard license in Captain's Ticket now has its own page you can find on Google: 25 pages from the six-pack and 100-ton to QMED, Tankerman and Towing, each with the modules, pass marks and 10 free sample questions.

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    Captain's Ticket now covers engine officers: free study guides for the Coast Guard Designated Duty Engineer 1,000-4,000 HP (DDE04), Assistant Engineer Limited (AEL01) and Chief Engineer Limited (CEL01, CEL02) exams at headedin.com/captain. 862 questions from the National Maritime Center's 9/2026 sample exams (text questions only; the ones that need the illustration book are left out), practice tests at 70%, the Brig and the Pass Meter. On Hall Pass under In the engine room.

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    Ask your AI what to do anywhere on the Florida coast: the AI connector's find_places now has our Locals' Picks for Miami, Naples-Fort Myers, Sarasota, the Space Coast, Jacksonville-St. Augustine and the Panhandle, not just Tampa Bay. 215 places, nobody pays to be listed.

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    Aircraft Dispatcher guide (headedin.com/dispatcher) adds the Part 117 flight time and duty tables (A, B and C), rest and cumulative limits, and key Part 91 rules (1-2-3 alternate rule, oxygen, speed limits, MEL): 592 questions, all free.

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    Aircraft Dispatcher guide (headedin.com/dispatcher) adds 27 more of our own questions on alternates, takeoff and landing minimums, high-minimums captains, the release and load manifest, dispatcher training and sterile cockpit, each linked to its regulation: 562 questions, all free.

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    The free study hub has a new name: Hall Pass (headedin.com/tickets). Every guide we make in one place, with your Pass Meter on each.

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    Aircraft Dispatcher guide (headedin.com/dispatcher) adds the Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston Intercontinental Chart Supplement pages and VOR position reading: 535 questions, all free.

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    Treasure ahead on the glasses (headedin.com/glasses) gets a Water card: the nearest inlet (stacking up or not, with any NWS warning), red tide in FWC's words, beach bacteria advisories within 3 miles, and a sandbar's big day when it's on or this week. Glanceable, from the same live data as the AI connector.

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    Ask your AI where to fish or dive: the new artificial_reefs tool finds FWC's public artificial reefs and sunken ships near any spot in Florida, 4,519 of them, with depth, what was sunk and how far away. Not for navigation.

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    Aircraft Dispatcher guide (headedin.com/dispatcher) adds every remaining en route chart in the FAA supplement, including South and Central Florida (Miami, Key West, Orlando, Cape Canaveral restricted areas): 524 questions, all free.

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    Aircraft Dispatcher guide (headedin.com/dispatcher) passes 500 questions: new en route chart practice around Albuquerque, Seattle, Las Vegas and the Great Lakes high-altitude routes. All free.

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    Ask your AI when golden hour is: the new golden_hour tool gives golden hour, blue hour and sunset for any spot (local time, Central in the Panhandle), which way the sun sets, and the same sunset guess as the app's Golden hour, read from cloud layers here and 25 miles toward the sun.

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    Aircraft Dispatcher guide (headedin.com/dispatcher) adds OBS and ILS needle reading, more Chart Supplement airports (Las Vegas, Minneapolis, Eagle, Whiteman) and low and high altitude en route charts: 482 questions, all free.

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    Ask your AI about the sandbar: the new sandbars tool knows our 44 Florida sandbars and raft-up spots, food boats the businesses have listed for the week, and the next big day at each (Boca Bash, Boater Skip Day, the Columbus Day Regatta raft-up off Elliott Key, which is this weekend).

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    Ask your AI if the inlet's rough: the new inlet_watch tool works out Inlet watch for 35 Florida inlets and passes (outgoing tide into an onshore wind, hour by hour) and names any NWS warning there. In a storm-strength wind it no longer calls an inlet OK; it says the wind is too strong for the tide rule and to check the warnings, in the app too.

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    Aircraft Dispatcher guide (headedin.com/dispatcher) is now 453 questions: every arrival in the FAA testing supplement, helicopter hover ceilings, HSI displays, holding fuel, takeoff EPR, altimeter-to-pressure-altitude, and climb, descent and landing graphs worked from the FAA's own printed examples. All free.

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    Ask your AI about red tide: the AI connector's new red_tide tool reads FWC's own water samples from the last 8 days, closest first or the statewide picture, in FWC's words (not present, very low, low, medium, high) with the sample day. It never calls a beach safe.

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    Ask your AI if there's a launch: the Headed In AI connector now has a rocket_launches tool with every launch from Kennedy and the Cape in the next two weeks (rocket, mission, pad, Eastern time, Go / Hold / Scrubbed, the stream link) and where to watch on the Space Coast. Same live schedule as headedin.com/launches.

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    Ask your AI about beach water: the Headed In AI connector has a new beach_water tool with every Florida beach where the county health department found bacteria over the state limit and hasn't posted a lift yet, from all 32 coastal counties. Closest first, the health department's own link, and one line to say out loud. Treasure ahead on the glasses (headedin.com/glasses) shows it on the Sky card within 3 miles. No advisory never means a clean test, and it says so.

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    Captain's Ticket now covers tugs and towboats: free study guides for the Coast Guard Towing Vessels exams (Master, Mate and Apprentice Mate/Steersman) on Western Rivers (TV03), Great Lakes & Inland (TV02), Near Coastal and Oceans (TV01) at headedin.com/captain. 393 more questions from the National Maritime Center's 2026 sample exams, practice tests at the real pass marks, the Brig and the Pass Meter. On Ticket Booth under Tugs and towboats.

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    Aircraft Dispatcher guide (headedin.com/dispatcher) adds the FAA test's drift-down and fuel dump tables and its airport signs and markings: 384 questions, all free.

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    The FEMA Professional Development Series pages at headedin.com/ics now track the certificate: tap I passed on each course and the PDS card checks it off, 1 of 7 up to 7 of 7. Pass all seven and make a share card for the whole series. It stays in your browser; nothing is sent.

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    The Aircraft Dispatcher guide at headedin.com/dispatcher is now 366 questions: weight and balance for the FAA test's commuter airplane and helicopter, en route charts, the obstacle limit chart, takeoff minimums and departure procedures, Chart Supplement entries, the LOCKE ONE and LANDR SIX arrivals, and the weather depiction, significant weather, radar summary, microburst and 500-MB charts. All free.

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    Captain's Ticket now covers Tankerman: free study guides for the Coast Guard Tank Vessel Assistant endorsement, Dangerous Liquids (TK01) and Liquefied Gas (TK02), at headedin.com/captain. All 100 questions from the National Maritime Center's 2026 sample exams (80 different ones), practice tests at 70%, the Brig for missed questions and the Pass Meter. On Ticket Booth under On the barge.

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    More Aircraft Dispatcher practice at headedin.com/dispatcher: questions that read the FAA test's climb limit, field limit and brake energy graphs, plus Florida approach plates at Key West, St. Augustine and Vero Beach, the Vero Beach airport diagram and the Key West and Vero Beach Chart Supplement pages. 260 questions, all free.

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    Space Coast launch schedule at headedin.com/launches: every Kennedy and Cape Canaveral launch for the next two weeks with a live countdown, Go / Hold / Scrubbed status, the launch window and the official stream link, plus where to watch (Playalinda closures included). It checks again on its own on launch day.

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    New free study pages for all 7 courses in FEMA's Professional Development Series at headedin.com/ics/120 through /ics/244: Exercises (IS-120), Fundamentals of Emergency Management (IS-230), Emergency Planning (IS-235), Leadership and Influence (IS-240), Decision Making (IS-241), Effective Communication (IS-242) and Volunteers (IS-244). 356 practice questions we wrote ourselves from FEMA's own course text, each checked word for word against the passage it comes from, with practice tests at FEMA's 75% pass mark and the Pass Meter. Pass all 7 at training.fema.gov and FEMA issues the PDS certificate that emergency management jobs ask for. No answer keys.

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    The Aircraft Dispatcher guide at headedin.com/dispatcher now covers the FAA test's performance charts and approach plates: 58 new questions on the real takeoff speed, %N1, stab trim, field, climb, obstacle and brake energy charts, approach plates at Helena, Eagle and Key West, and the Fort Lauderdale airport diagram and hot spots. 219 questions, all free.

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    The Aircraft Dispatcher guide at headedin.com/dispatcher now shows the real FAA test figures. 40 new questions use pages from the FAA's own ADX testing supplement (METARs and PIREPs, TAFs, a Convective SIGMET, winds aloft and IFR alternate minimums), right inside the question, with pinch and drag zoom that opens on the line being asked about. 161 questions in all, every answer checked against the figure, regulation or handbook page it cites.

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    New free study guide for the FAA Aircraft Dispatcher (ADX) test at headedin.com/dispatcher. 121 practice questions, all our own, three choices each like the real test, written from 14 CFR parts 65, 117 and 121, the NTSB reporting rules (49 CFR 830) and the FAA Aviation Weather Handbook, and every answer links the exact regulation section or handbook page it was checked against. Full 80-question practice tests at the FAA's 70% mark with the real 3.5-hour limit, every miss listed with its answer and source, and the Pass Meter. On Ticket Booth and the Class Board.

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    New free study guide for the FAA Inspection Authorization (IA) test at headedin.com/ia, the step after the A&P. 135 practice questions, all our own, written from the FAA's Inspection Authorization Information Guide and 14 CFR parts 39, 43, 65 and 91, and every answer links the exact guide page or regulation section it was checked against. 50-question practice tests at the FAA's 70% mark with the real 3-hour limit, every missed question listed with its answer and source, and the Pass Meter. On Ticket Booth and the Class Board.

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    Captain's Ticket now covers the engine room: free study guides for all five Coast Guard QMED ratings (Oiler, Junior Engineer, Electrician / Refrigerating Engineer, Fireman / Watertender, Machinist / Pump Technician) at headedin.com/captain. 421 questions from the National Maritime Center's 2026 sample exams, practice tests with the real 70% pass mark on every module, the Brig for missed questions and the Pass Meter. On Ticket Booth under In the engine room.

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    Every FCC GMDSS license now has a free study guide at headedin.com/grol: the Restricted GMDSS Radio Operator (Element 7R, for ships that stay within VHF-DSC range) and the GMDSS Maintainer (Element 9) join the full GMDSS operator test. All 300 questions in each official FCC pool, word for word, read straight from the FCC's own PDFs, with practice tests drawn one per key topic like the real 50-question exams (38 to pass) and the Pass Meter. Four printing mistakes in the FCC's Element 9 pool are corrected and explained on the page.

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    Two new free FAA study guides: Parachute Rigger at headedin.com/rigger and Fundamentals of Instructing (the teaching test every new flight and ground instructor takes) at headedin.com/foi. 60 practice questions each, all our own, written from the FAA's Parachute Rigger Handbook and Aviation Instructor's Handbook, with every answer linked to the handbook page it was checked against. Practice tests are 50 questions at the FAA's 70% mark with the real time limits, plus the Pass Meter. Both are on Ticket Booth and work with the Class Board.

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    A&P mechanic study guides now match the real FAA tests: Airframe has 129 practice questions and Powerplant 127, so each practice test is the full 100 questions at the FAA's 70% pass mark, with every one of the FAA's subject areas covered. Every question is our own, written from the FAA's Aviation Maintenance Technician Handbooks, and every answer links the exact handbook page it was checked against. Free at headedin.com/amt.

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    Class Board for schools: a free board holds 10 students, and a school plan is $100 per student per program for 12 months, paid by the school (students never pay, and the guides stay free). Teachers can text the join link or print a classroom poster with a QR code, and the board now shows the class's real exam results: who took it, who passed, and the pass rate. Pilot schools get one class free in exchange for sharing pass/fail counts.

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    Class Board at headedin.com/class: a teacher starts a free board for any of our study guides (no account) and gets a 6-letter class code. Students 13 and older join from their guide with the code and a first name, and the teacher sees each one's Pass Meter, ready date, practice tests and whether they passed the real exam, so a maritime or A&P school can see who is ready to book the test. Students see exactly what is shared and can leave any time. Every guide also asks Took the real one? after the exam: I passed or Not this time, and you can count your result anonymously so the Pass Meter gets a report card from real exams.

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    New free study guides for the FAA aviation mechanic (A&P) tests at headedin.com/amt: General, Airframe and Powerplant, 179 practice questions we wrote ourselves from the FAA's own Aviation Maintenance Technician Handbooks, with topics straight from the FAA's Airman Certification Standards. Every answer links the exact handbook page it comes from, and every question was checked word for word against that page. Practice tests at the FAA's 70% pass mark and the Pass Meter, and all three are on Ticket Booth (headedin.com/tickets).

14. OCT8
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    Ticket Booth at headedin.com/tickets: every free study guide we make in one place (9 Coast Guard licenses, FCC commercial radio, ham radio, FAA Part 107, FEMA ICS and the citizenship test), with your own Pass Meter on each one side by side and a share card of the ones you are working on. It reads the progress the guides already keep in your browser; nothing is sent anywhere.

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    Ask your AI assistant when a Florida drawbridge opens next. The Headed In AI connector now knows the federal opening schedule for 80+ drawbridges, from the Miami River and Fort Lauderdale to Tampa's Hillsborough River, the Pinellas beach causeways, Sarasota, St. Augustine and the Keys: on signal now, the next scheduled opening, rush-hour closures, call-ahead hours, and whether your boat fits under it closed. The same times are coming to the chart as a Drawbridges layer.

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    New free study pages for FEMA's emergency courses at headedin.com/ics: IS-100 and IS-200 (the Incident Command System), IS-700 (NIMS) and IS-800 (the National Response Framework). 109 practice questions we wrote ourselves from FEMA's own NIMS and NRF documents, each checked word for word against the passage it comes from, with practice tests at FEMA's 75% pass mark and the Pass Meter. Hospitals, fire and EMS, CERT teams and ham radio emergency groups ask for these. No answer keys: take the real course free at training.fema.gov.

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    New free study guide: GMDSS Radio Operator (FCC Element 7) at headedin.com/grol/gmdss. All 600 questions in the FCC's own pool, covering DSC, Inmarsat, NAVTEX, EPIRBs, SARTs and distress procedures, with practice tests built like the real one (100 questions, one per key topic, 75 to pass) and the Pass Meter. It's the radio license deck officers need on ships that carry GMDSS gear.

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    Captain's Ticket now covers more than captains: the Assistance Towing endorsement (the TowBoatUS / Sea Tow job), the Auxiliary Sail endorsement, Able Seafarer (AB) and Lifeboat Operator, regular and Limited. That's 176 more questions from the Coast Guard's own 2026 sample exams, each graded at the real 70% pass mark, with the Pass Meter on every one. Pick them under Change license at headedin.com/captain.

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    Captain's Ticket has the Pass Meter now too. A captain's license is several Coast Guard module tests, and you have to pass all of them, so it shows your chance on each module at its real pass mark (90% for Rules of the Road, 70% for the rest), your chance on the whole license, and the module where an hour of study counts most.

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    The Pass Meter is on the ham, drone, citizenship and FCC radio guides (Captain's Ticket is next): your chance of passing the real exam if it were today, worked out from your own answers and an exam built the way the real one is drawn. It shows your expected score, the topic worth the most points, and the day you'll hit 90% at your pace. Plus a new guide at headedin.com/grol for the FCC commercial radio licenses: Element 1, the GROL (Element 3, with all 17 circuit drawings) and the ship radar endorsement (Element 8, with all 12 drawings).

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    This page now shows every app we make: Headed In and Headed Back, plus three study apps for iPhone (Captain's Ticket, Drone Ticket and Ham Ticket, all in App Store review and all free on the web today). A new "Study for a license" list covers the free guides, including the citizenship civics test, and the research section adds the numbers behind them.

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    Two more free study guides on the same engine. Ham radio now goes all the way up: General (all 423 questions of the 2023-2027 pool) and Amateur Extra (all 599 of the 2024-2028 pool, with the circuit diagrams and the Smith chart) sit next to Technician, one tap apart at headedin.com/ham. And headedin.com/citizen covers the U.S. citizenship test: all 128 questions of the 2025 civics test, practice tests scored like the interview (20 asked, 12 to pass), and every answer USCIS accepts shown after each question.

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    Ham radio study (headedin.com/ham) now explains every answer: all 409 Technician questions get a plain "why" line, with the math worked out on the formula questions and the FCC rule linked on the rules ones.

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    Captain's Ticket now covers the FCC Marine Radio Operator Permit, the radio license you need to run passengers for hire: all 144 questions in the FCC's own Element 1 pool, and a practice test built like the real one (one question from each of the 24 topics, 18 right to pass). Pick it from Change license on headedin.com/captain. Master-license students get a nudge, since more than 6 passengers means the FCC wants it too.

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    Two more study apps for iPhone, sisters of Captain's Ticket: Drone Ticket (FAA Part 107, with the Chart room) is in App Review, and Ham Ticket (all 409 questions of the 2026-2030 ham radio Technician pool, with zoomable circuit diagrams) is built. Both free, both work with no signal, both collect nothing.

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    Chart room on headedin.com/drone: the FAA's own test charts (sectionals for Norfolk, Minot, Coeur d'Alene, Savannah, Jamestown and Toledo, plus the load factor chart and METARs) that you can drag, pinch and zoom. Tap a numbered area to fly to it, then answer the FAA's 13 chart questions on the chart they use. Each one opens zoomed to the right spot. Now 150 questions. A Drone Ticket app for iPhone is coming.

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    Part 107 Drone (headedin.com/drone): free study for the FAA remote pilot test, the one you need to fly for pay. 137 questions: the FAA's own samples plus ones written from the rules, each with the reason and a link to the rule. 10-question rounds, a timed 60-question practice test that passes at 42, a missed-question pile and flip cards. Progress stays on the phone.

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    Ham Radio Technician (headedin.com/ham): free study for the FCC ham radio Technician exam with all 409 questions from the new 2026-2030 pool, word for word, plus the three circuit diagrams. Practice tests are built like the real one, a question from each of the 35 groups, and pass at 26. Rule questions link to the FCC rule.

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    Captain's Ticket (headedin.com/captain): free study for the Coast Guard captain's license, six-pack (OUPV) or 100-ton. 448 questions from the Coast Guard's own sample exams, 10-question rounds, practice tests with the real pass marks (90% Rules of the Road, 70% the rest), a missed-question pile, and drills for night lights, day shapes and whistle and fog signals. Works in any phone browser; progress stays on the phone.

15. OCT7
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    Family trips on your glasses (headedin.com/glasses): open it with the family link you got by text and the first card is that trip: "Back by 4:30, 2 h left", or overdue in plain words, with an arrow to the last spot. Read only; I'm back stays on the phone.

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    Storm heads-up while you're out: during a HEADED OUT trip on land (golf cart, walk, ride or hunt), you get a notification when the National Weather Service puts a thunderstorm or tornado warning on your spot, or forecasts thunderstorms within the hour: "Thunderstorms in about 25 min. Time to head back."

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    Critters on your glasses (headedin.com/glasses): a new Critter card shows the nearest roadside critter out today, with its drawing, its line of the day, an arrow and how far. Same critters at the same places as the app, so you can walk up and catch them in Headed Back.

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    Treasure ahead, for Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses (headedin.com/glasses): the nearest true Florida story with an arrow and how far, the closest boat ramp with its live wait, and NOAA's forecast in mph with the next tide and sunset. Swipe the Neural Band to flip cards; pinch to hear it.

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    AI trip planners can now ask our connector what's on: festivals, concerts, farmers markets and park events this week or weekend from about 30 Florida city and county calendars, each with its official link (the whats_on tool).

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    8 new true stories on the map in Southwest Florida: the day Everglades City got arrested, the Tamiami Trail Blazers, Venice's Clown College, the Shark Lady, 500-year-old cypress at Corkscrew and the solar town that kept its lights on through Ian.

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    11 new true stories on the map in Central Florida: how Gatorade got its name, the Silver River monkeys, the mystery land buyer who turned out to be Disney, Jackie Robinson in 1946, the racetrack that was a bomber base and the sick colt that made Ocala horse country.

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    12 new true stories on the map up the East Coast: where NASCAR was born, the Birthplace of Speed, Jacksonville's 1901 fire and its silent film studios, the first wildlife refuge, Dodgertown and where the Navy frogmen trained.

16. OCT6
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    12 new true stories on the map in the Keys and South Florida: the 1935 Labor Day storm, the Barefoot Mailman, the Miami Circle, Hialeah's racetrack flamingos and how Key Largo renamed itself after a movie.

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    Food trucks post where they are, free: the truck taps We're here now on headedback.com/redeem, its pin says Posted by the truck with its hours, and followers get one alert a day.

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    Free quotes for businesses: pick a critter coupon, errand, sponsored spot, classified, crawl slot or food truck pin, and Brady writes the quote himself.

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    The chart, redone: a square crosshair, coordinates in a thin bar at the bottom, and Layers in the corner.

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    Places to play: tennis, pickleball, dog parks, public golf and disc golf near you.

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    Garmin inReach: satellite dots on the family trip page, and GPX files that open in Garmin.

17. OCT5
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    Trail Time Trials: race your own ghost, or run a relay with friends on a shared path.

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    Sandbar notes on the chart.

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    Crew Board: a weekly board for your regulars.

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    Storm log: one tap for what's coming down, counted for the season.

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    What to plant: the UF/IFAS planting calendar for North, Central and South Florida.

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    Red tide near you, from FWC's statewide list. A daily question on Play.

18. OCT4
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    Morning brief, tide alarm, packing lists, and a catch log that saves the tide and air pressure.

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    Fuel planner, fuel log, engine log, trip cost, sea time and float plan share.

The apps are planning and communication tools. They don't replace a VHF radio, a float plan filed with someone ashore, a harness in a tree stand, or calling the Coast Guard (VHF 16) or 911. Texts depend on phone signal and on the trip reaching our server. Forecasts, tides and solunar times are predictions, not promises.