ECDIS GENERIC
ABOUT COURSE
This model course intends to provide the knowledge, skill and understanding of ECDIS and electronic charts to the thorough extent needed to safely navigate vessels whose primary means of navigation is ECDIS. The course emphasizes both the application and learning of ECDIS in a variety of underway contexts. The course is designed to meet the rules of national legislations and the STCW requirements in the use of ECDIS, as revised by the 2010 Manila Amendments, specifically as these apply to Tables A-II/1, A-II/2 and A-II/3, It should be understood that this is a generic course which requires a structured and complementary on-board ship specific ECDIS familiarization for each shipboard ECDIS system on which the navigating officer serves.
Course Aims:
After the successful completion of the course, the participant should be able to:
- Operate the system with all available functions in order to navigate safely under all conditions
- Explain the system’s menu structure
- Explain and utilize the system’s display setup
- Set safety values
- Recognize alarm and malfunction indicators and actions to be taken
- Planning and validating routes
- Monitor routes on the system
- Change over to backup systems
- Install and update charts and licenses
Contents:
- Type-specific familiarization training
- Basic operations
- Navigation tools and functions
- Setting of safety parameters
- Sensor inputs and alarm handling
- Route planning, validation and monitoring
- Charts management
- Chart installation and updates
Learning Process:
The training will be a combination of theoretical lessons and practical exercises.
Entry Requirement / Target Group:
Entry to this course is open for Navigating (deck) Officers with basic navigation knowledge.
Course Certificate:
A Certificate of Completion is given to each candidate who fulfills the Course by the ECDIS Type-Specific model maker.
REQUIRED DOCUMENTS
-Passport Hard Copy.
-Seamen’s Book Hard Copy.
-Certificate of Competence (COC).
-Expire Certificate Hard Copy.
