Navmaster ECDIS for Training

Navmaster ECDIS for Training is designed to provide a suitable system to organisations which need to deliver training in the operational use of ECDIS.
It consists of type approved ECDIS software which can be run on standard PCs and networks to give realistic hands-on ECDIS operator training.

Navmaster ECDIS for Training being used at the Maritime Institute Willem Barentsz

Key benefits

Type approved and up-to-date against all the current regulations
Supports all official chart formats
Has excellent route management & passage planning tools
Electronic charts at half price or in some cases free of charge
Actual voyage data can be replayed
Can be connected to real bridge instruments and bridge simulators
Can be interfaced to NMEA simulator programs
Network installation allows large classes to be taken at once

Options

Radar video overlay with PC radar card
Multi-user version for use in a classroom
Admiralty TotalTide integration for worldwide tidal height & stream
Tidal atlas display (UK continental shelf)

"Our Navmaster ECDIS training system allows us to take classes of 24 students at once, making the teaching process far less time-consuming. We train approximately 60 of our own students during the third and fourth term of their second year, although in future students will use ECDIS from the beginning. In addition, we take students from other schools in groups of about 14-20 every week.
The classroom is available to students most of the time. Outside of their lectures we see students working with Navmaster; and students returning from their 6-month practical period use the system frequently for preparation and presentation."

Nico Booij, senior lecturer, Maritime Institute Willem Barentsz, Terschelling.

Navmaster linked to a desktop ship simulator at Maersk Training Centre in Newcastle, UK

"Most of our course delegates have already used an ECDIS and it takes them a little while to re-align this with the way Navmaster works. But Navmaster is designed to the standard Windows user interface and its buttons and icons have meaning. The delegates use their PC experience and soon find Navmaster to be very straightforward, easy to follow and with no hidden glitches.
As an instructor I find the menus and commands in Navmaster are almost intuitive. It is a great system which seems to comply completely with the IMO standards. The flexibility it offers me as an instructor is very good and I can interface with other ship simulators to give a real-life simulation of a navigational watch."

Vaughan Lewis, Instructor, Maersk Training Centre UK Ltd.

Training overview
To operate paperless, shipowners are required to ensure their navigators complete two types of training: generic ECDIS training provided by an STCW approved organisation, and type-specific training often provided by the manufacturer.
At colleges equipped with Navmaster ECDIS for Training, instructors can combine teaching the theory with hands-on experience which is as close as possible to experience onboard.

Approvals
Navmaster ECDIS for Training conforms to all the new standards and test specifications which apply to ECDIS from 1 January 2009. It is type-approved by DNV and also Wheelmark approved.

Combine both type of ECDIS training
If a shipping company uses Navmaster ECDIS onboard, its personnel can complete both types of training if they attend a college equipped with Navmaster ECDIS for Training.

Display standard
To meet ECDIS presentation standards the system needs to be run on displays with a screen resolution of at least 1280 x 1024, but may be run on lower resolutions.

Own ship steaming down the Thames with incoming vessel
visible and other AIS targets listed in the side panel.