User's Manual

NACOS Platinum
ED 3100 G 140 / 04 (2011-11)
Operating Instructions
C-1 Voyage Planning
C VOYAGE PLANNING & MONITORING.fm
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If you want do discard your changes made to the selected route, use Save As to store the version with
the changed dataset under a new filename.
Check Route
The route to be used during the voyage must be checked by the program before distribution to the
system.
A not successfully checked route cannot be activated as System Route.
If the selected route shown in Waypoint List in the lower part of the application area shall be used as
System Route and "Not Checked" is indicated behind the check button click on the Check Route button
before activation of the route.
☞ If the route has been reloaded anew, the check results are lost and the check route must be
executed once more. In this way it is ensured that the check is repeated with the actually valid draft
dependent depth contour settings of the most up-to-date electronic chart.
Clicking on the button starts the verification of the pre-planned route as follows:
- check against the Safety Contour
- check against the chart objects with a depth less than the Safety Contour Value
- check against own Safety Lines and Danger Highlight areas.
The results of the route verification are shown in the Waypoint List by small icons in front of the waypoint
numbers. Pointing on it with the cursor, gives additional information on the check-results as a tool-tip.
Clicking on these alarm icons opens another info dialog on the screen, where all detected hazards, limi-
tations, etc. on the leg or at the waypoint are shown and described more detailed. For a step-by-step
guide for route checking See chapter 1.1.7 on page C-25.
System Route
After you have checked it, you can activate the route as pre-planned track by a click on the Activate
button.
In this way the activated route will change its colour from orange to red and will from now on be distrib-
uted to all applications on all MFDs for system-wide use, for example for a connected autopilot or track
control system.
The activated route is from now on handled as System Route until it is deselected again or until another
one is activated.
The System Route has the following properties:
- it cannot be deleted from the screen,
- it cannot be modified or reloaded,
- it is used for chart and track monitoring as set by the operator under > Settings > Route
- it is used for calculation of all data shown in the Route Data window,
- it is sent cyclically to the TRACKPILOT and the (optional) SPEEDPILOT, which use the data of the
System Route for their own calculations and control purposes (see also the relevant chapters of
these operating instructions).