It always occurred to me that the Captain simply needs to make a decision and lets the bridge officers handle it out. The Captain doesn't pilot the ship, all he does is tell the guys in the pit where and how to pilot his ship. Unless there is a high likelihood of battle, he doesn't actually do more than give orders, which can easily be given from his own room.Dark Flame wrote:Wouldn't the captain be on the bridge for standard navigational orders, communications, possible threat analysis, and other mundane everyday tasks? I realize that there are specialists for all these things, but someone has to be in charge of all of it, and he seems like the best choice.Bounty wrote:How much time does a captain spend on the bridge anyway? If he's only needed for major operations and isn't expected to loiter around the command walkway for hours on end, the lack of a chair isn't really an issue.
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That's what you have the OOD for (Officer of the Day/Deck...pretty sure it's Deck but I don't remember). They basically act (and have the assumed authority of) the Captain in the course of their duties. Unless the Captain is around too.Dark Flame wrote:Wouldn't the captain be on the bridge for standard navigational orders, communications, possible threat analysis, and other mundane everyday tasks? I realize that there are specialists for all these things, but someone has to be in charge of all of it, and he seems like the best choice.Bounty wrote:How much time does a captain spend on the bridge anyway? If he's only needed for major operations and isn't expected to loiter around the command walkway for hours on end, the lack of a chair isn't really an issue.
I'm sure the Navy members here can fill you in better on the specifics. My memory is a little fuzzy on Navy shipboard SOP (not that I ever had a whole lot of details in the first place).
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Here's a floorplan, but I don't know what the stations are labelled:drachefly wrote:How are bridges arranged on real warships?
Arleigh Burke Destroyer Combat Information Center
These links might be helpful, but I just found them and so I have yet to peruse them thoroughly:
Report on a CIC design for which I think is a landing ship.
Appears to be a summary of different CIC designs, with some floorplans.