User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- GENERAL
- 1 About these Operating Instructions
- 2 Safety Precautions
- 3 NACOS Platinum System Description
- 4 Multi Function Display
- 5 NACOS Platinum Graphical User Interface
- QUICK START GUIDE
- MAIN APPLICATIONS
- RADAR
- 1 General Information
- 1.1 RADAR Safety
- 1.2 Current IHO Standards / Regulatory Approvals
- 1.3 System Structure and Installation
- 1.4 Basics / Evaluation of the RADAR Video
- 1.4.1 Basics of the Evaluation of RADAR Video in Platinum Series
- 1.4.2 Achievable RADAR Range
- 1.4.3 Distortions of the RADAR Video
- 1.4.4 Undesirable Echo Displays and Effects
- 1.4.5 RADAR Setting for the Display of Racon Codes
- 1.4.6 RADAR Settings for Target Enhancer Detection
- 1.4.7 RADAR Setting for SART Detection (X-Band only)
- 1.4.8 Transmission formats
- 1.5 Basic setting of the RADAR Video
- 1.6 RADAR Accuracy
- 2 The RADAR Keyboard
- 3 An Overview of the Screen
- 4 RADAR Application Area
- 5 RADAR Sidebar - Permanent Area
- 6 RADAR Sidebar - Non-Permanent Area
- 7 Target Handling
- 7.1 Overview
- 7.2 Manual Target Acquisition
- 7.3 Manual Target Selection
- 7.4 Automatic Target Acquisition
- 7.5 Settings for Dangerous Targets
- 7.6 Settings for Acquisition/Guard Zones
- 7.7 Target Fusion
- 7.8 Deletion and Loss of Targets
- 7.9 Critical Target
- 7.10 Target List
- 7.11 Target Display
- 7.12 Trial Manoeuvre
- 7.13 Reference Target Tracking
- 7.14 ARPA Training
- 7.15 ARPA Malfunctions
- 7.16 AIS Malfunctions
- 8 User Symbols
- 9 CHARTRADAR (optional)
- 9.1 Overview
- 9.2 Basic Adjustments
- 9.3 Selecting the Objects to be Displayed in the Vector Chart
- 9.3.1 Overview
- 9.3.2 Categories of Display Groups
- 9.3.3 Select a Category
- 9.3.4 Select the Primary Chart Information Set (PCIS)
- 9.3.5 Indication of Category in the Status Line
- 9.3.6 Defining the Symbol Presentation
- 9.3.7 Setting the Display of Text Labels
- 9.3.8 Switch on Additional Information
- 9.3.9 Switch on Conditionally Displayed Features
- 9.4 CHARTRADAR Application Area
- 9.5 Application Area Context Menu
- 9.6 Setting the Depths Lines to be Displayed in the Vector Chart
- 9.7 Setting the Own Ship’s Draft
- 9.8 Activating the Chart Monitoring
- 9.9 Setting the Look-Ahead Sector
- 9.10 Chart Maintenance
- 9.11 Main Differences between CHARTRADAR and Full ECDISPILOT
- 1 General Information
- VOYAGE PLANNING AND MONITORING
- 1 Voyage Planning
- 1.1 Generation of Routes
- 1.1.1 General Information about Pre-planned Tracks
- 1.1.2 Generation, Handling and Administration of the Routes
- 1.1.3 Route Display Settings
- 1.1.4 Route Editing - Graphical
- 1.1.5 Route Editing - Text Mode
- 1.1.6 Details of the Waypoint Data
- 1.1.7 Checking of Routes
- 1.1.8 Completing the Generation of the Route
- 1.1.9 Import / Export Routes
- 1.1 Generation of Routes
- 2 Chart and Route Monitoring
- 1 Voyage Planning
- CONNING
- SENSORS
- OPTIONAL APPLICATIONS
- MAINTENANCE
- 1 Performance Monitor
- 2 Data Maintenance of the Electronic Charts
- 2.1 General
- 2.2 Starting Chart Maintenance
- 2.3 Chart Maintenance Application Area
- 2.4 Update of Charts from Media
- 2.5 Messages during Chart Update
- 2.6 Display Charts which are on a Media or a MFD (workstation)
- 2.7 Maintenance of Charts on your MFD (workstation)
- 2.8 Display Expander
- 2.9 Backup/Restore of Map Data
- 3 Manual ENC Update Editor
- 4 Hardware Maintenance
- 5 SW Version and Updates
- ALARMS
- LISTS AND INDEXES
- DOCUMENT HISTORY
ED 3100 G 140 / 04 (2011-11)
Operating Instructions
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1.1.7.2 Check against the Electronic Chart and the User made Chart Objects
This chapter contains details and a step by step instruction how to perform the check of the geometrically
correct route against the electronic chart, the optional raster charts or paper charts.
This verification of the planned route against charted objects must be performed before it can be made
the System Route. After each reload or any change of a route the checking must be repeated after the
relevant safety settings (Safety Contour) have been adapted to the prevailing conditions.
Preparation
1. In the menu Presentation > ENC > Depth, set the Safety Contour correctly
2. Set the type of the electronic chart against which the check is to be performed, preferable to ENC.
3. Switch on the display of the user made symbols, lines and areas in the context menu of the PPI/
Chart area under Layer > User Symbols.
4. Adjust the Range setting so that cells of the electronic vector chart or raster charts
1)
which contain
the nautically relevant information for the planned route are displayed.
5. If a vector chart is used, check whether chart cells having the appropriate navigational purpose are
present for the entire track, at least over the width corresponding to the Safety Corridor setting
or to the Track Limit contained in the route data-set:
• Correctly set the display of the chart objects in the ENC that are to be displayed
• With the Set Chart Center or the Pan and Zoom Control function, step along the route to
be checked.
For those chart areas of the planned route which are not covered by suitable data cells, all nautically
relevant objects along the route must be marked by means of Own Safety Lines or Danger High-
lights.
To verify this, also the raster charts can be used if installed on your system - see step 6.
If there is no suitable raster chart available, the check must be performed manually against the
paper chart. For this purpose, the pre-planned track, including the track limits, must be entered in
the paper chart and checked on that chart visually.
6. If raster charts are used, then
2)
all nautically relevant objects along the route must be marked by
means of own Safety Lines or Danger Highlights for the entire track, at least over the width corre-
sponding to the track limit.
For this purpose, virtually sail along the route to be checked using the Set Chart Center or the Pan
and Zoom Control functions.
1)
Raster charts are not yet available in the PLATINUM system.
2)
This is prescribed for ships with DNV approval and using raster charts.
The checks mentioned in steps 5 and 6, and the editing of the own chart objects,
especially of the own safety lines and danger highlights, must be performed with
care so that the necessary level of safety can be achieved.