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.

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
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)

Above and Below: Being used on a 30-station network in a Dutch maritime college, Navmaster ECDIS for Training is straightforward to install and operate. It is an ideal resource for organisations developing courses to meet IMO Model Course 1.27 and additionally enables students to both prepare and execute passages; routes can be prepared at college and then carried out onboard a training ship.

"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.

Training overview
The overall objective of an ECDIS training course is to enhance navigational safety. The skills to be gained include:

The safe operation of ECDIS equipment
The proper use of various types of ECDIS-related information
Knowledge of the capability and limitations of ECDIS

Navmaster ECDIS for Training provides training organisations with the means to deliver these objectives and to give realistic hands-on ECDIS operator training.

Approvals
Navmaster ECDIS for Training conforms to IMO Res. A817(19) as amended, IMO Res. A694(17), IHO Presentation Library v3.3. It is type-approved by DNV and Germanischer Lloyd.

Electronic charts
Compatible with ENC, CM-ENC, ARCS, BSB, Seafarer & C-Map CM93/3 electronic charts.

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.