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
NACOS Platinum
ED 3100 G 140 / 04 (2011-11)
Operating Instructions
I-5 NACOS Platinum Graphical User Interface
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There are different possibilities available to verify the alive status of the MFD which are listed and
explained below.
The Time Display
The system provides feedback that it is still active and operating, i.e. alive. This is specifically indicated
on each MFD in the title bar of the HMI by the seconds changing in the time display.
If picture freeze occurs, all data on the screen as well as the display of the seconds will be frozen, so
that the operator is able to notice this fault.
The Cursor and HMI
Picture freeze caused by the computer or the graphics adapter of the MFD can also be recognized by the
fact that moving the trackball or the mouse does no longer change the cursor position on the screen.
If the computer or its application software has a severe fault it can also happen that the cursor is still
moving but a click on any HMI element (for instance an operable button on the screen) is no longer
working correctly.
The RADAR Video
The transmission of the radar video from a connected transceiver to the MFD is monitored continuously.
If the connection to the transceiver is disturbed or completely lost, the respective alarm messages
describing the reason for the fault are given (See chapter 7.15 on page A-81 for details).
If the refresh of the radar video is not possible, the alarm No RADAR Video is issued; the video in the
PPI is cleared and will no longer be updated.
If no such alarm is indicated and you want to check the alive status of the radar transmission and the
PPI update you should switch off all signal processing of the radar video, increase the video gain to
maximum in order to visualize all targets and eventually clutter in the vicinity, or - as a minimum - make
the video noise visible on the PPI. If the video noise is visible and is changing at each antenna rotation,
this part of the system is alive and operable.
In order to make the rotating antenna sweep visible, you can
- "Step up and down with the radar range, or
- "Change the video gain between minimum and maximum.
In both cases the update of the video sectors on the PPI should be observable.
The Monitor
A green LED at the lower right corner of the MFD monitor indicates the running connection to the MFD
computer. If the connection is lost or disturbed, the LED will stay green but start flashing once per
second and the screen will normally become dark. If the LED changes to orange the monitor is in stand-
by mode waiting for sync signal, red indicates the switched off status. The LED will flash red in case of
excessive temperatures.