Electronic Chart Display and Information System

Content of the Course

The type - specific ECDIS training covers the following areas:

• Familiarization with available functions including function keys
• Familiarization with the menu structure
• Display setup including own ship setup
• Setting of safety values
• Sensor inputs
• Recognition of alarms and malfunction indicators and the actions to be taken
• Route planning and validation of the route for anti-grounding and special areas alarms
• Route plan tables and voyage plans
• Route monitoring including analyze and act on given alarms
• ARPA and AIS-targets
• Obtaining information from selected objects
• Logbook functions
• Changing over to backup systems
• Play back
• ENC cell and ARCS coverage
• Loading charts and licenses
• ENC and ARCS updates, by CD and by MDS
• Manual corrections
• Updating of software
• MBA (MDS), including chart management, weather forecast, tide tables, port database (Fairplay) and Voyage plan
  

Course Approval and Certification

GigaMare Inc.