SAM Electronics GmbH NG3050X25KW User Manuals

Table of Contents

• GENERAL

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  • 1 About these Operating Instructions

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    • 1.1 Aim and Scope of these Operating Instructions

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    • 1.2 Validity of these Operating Instructions

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    • 1.3 Availability of these Operating Instructions

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    • 1.4 How to Find Information in the Operating Instructions

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      • 1.4.1 Structure of the Operating Instructions

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      • 1.4.2 How to find Information on Specific Subjects

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    • 1.5 Typographical Conventions

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  • 2 Safety Precautions

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    • 2.1 Warnings and Notes in these Operating Instructions

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    • 2.2 Meaning of Safety Signs

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    • 2.3 General Safety Notes – NACOS Platinum

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    • 2.4 Authorisation and Qualification of Personnel

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    • 2.5 Commissioning

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    • 2.6 Obligatory Safety Inspection

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  • 3 NACOS Platinum System Description

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    • 3.1 What is the NACOS Platinum?

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    • 3.2 Customisation

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    • 3.3 Applicable Standards

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  • 4 Multi Function Display

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    • 4.1 General System Description MFD

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    • 4.2 Operating Devices

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      • 4.2.1 Pointing Devices – Trackball and Mouse

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      • 4.2.2 Keyboard

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      • 4.2.3 The ASCII Keyboard

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      • 4.2.4 The RADAR Keyboard

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      • 4.2.5 The TRACKPILOT Keyboard

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    • 4.3 TFT Monitor

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      • 4.3.1 Nominal Viewing Distance

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      • 4.3.2 Colour Distortions on Monitors with Flat Screens (TFT Monitors)

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      • 4.3.3 Printers

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    • 4.4 Startup and Shutdown of MFDs

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    • 4.5 Basic Settings

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      • 4.5.1 Adjusting the Display

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      • 4.5.2 Setting Date and Time

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  • 5 NACOS Platinum Graphical User Interface

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    • 5.1 Super Home

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    • 5.2 Screen Layout

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      • 5.2.1 Title Bar

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        • 5.2.1.1 Brilliance

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        • 5.2.1.2 Active Application Title

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        • 5.2.1.3 Date and Time

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        • 5.2.1.4 Alive Indication

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    • 5.3 Sidebar

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      • 5.3.1 Permanent Area

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      • 5.3.2 Non-Permanent Area

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      • 5.3.3 Menu Bar

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        • 5.3.3.1 Full Screen Mode

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    • 5.4 Application Area

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      • 5.4.1 Application Area Frames

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    • 5.5 Tabbed Panels

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    • 5.6 Lists & Tables

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    • 5.7 Dialogues

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      • 5.7.1 Popup Edit Windows

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    • 5.8 Tooltips

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    • 5.9 Controls – Adjusting Values

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      • 5.9.1 Fields

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      • 5.9.2 Field Groups

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      • 5.9.3 Sliders

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      • 5.9.4 Push Buttons

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      • 5.9.5 Dropdown Menus

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      • 5.9.6 Check Boxes

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      • 5.9.7 Scroll Bars

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      • 5.9.8 Spin boxes

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      • 5.9.9 Keys for Numeric Values

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      • 5.9.10 Zoom and Pan Control

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      • 5.9.11 Alphanumeric and Graphical Indications

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      • 5.9.12 Alarm Icons

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    • 5.10 Mouse Pointers and Clicks

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      • 5.10.1 Pointers in RADAR and ECDIS

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      • 5.10.2 Mouse Pointers for Machinery

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• QUICK START GUIDE

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  • 1 How to start quickly

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    • 1.1 The S-Mode for RADAR

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    • 1.2 The S-Mode for ECDIS

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• MAIN APPLICATIONS

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  • 1 Overview of Products and Applications

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    • 1.1 NACOS Platinum Products

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    • 1.2 RADAR Application

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    • 1.3 ECDIS Application

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    • 1.4 CONNING Application

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    • 1.5 TRACKPILOT Application

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    • 1.6 MACHINERY Application

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    • 1.7 Common Functions for Products and Applications

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  • 2 Common Functions for Navigation

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    • 2.1 The Consistent Common Reference System (CCRS)

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    • 2.2 Context Menus

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    • 2.3 The Chart Information Window

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  • 3 Permanent Area for Navigation

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    • 3.1 Display

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      • 3.1.1 Orientation

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      • 3.1.2 Range

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      • 3.1.3 Rings

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      • 3.1.4 CCRP

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      • 3.1.5 Screen Stabilisation

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    • 3.2 Navigation Sensors

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      • 3.2.1 Integrity Marking of Sensors

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      • 3.2.2 Heading and Speed

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      • 3.2.3 Position

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    • 3.3 Vector and Trails

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      • 3.3.1 Ground / Water Stabilisation

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      • 3.3.2 Vector

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      • 3.3.3 Trails

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      • 3.3.4 Plot

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      • 3.3.5 Predict

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    • 3.4 Charts

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      • 3.4.1 The Chart Status Line

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    • 3.5 Targets

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      • 3.5.1 Fusion

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      • 3.5.2 Sleeping Targets

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• RADAR

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  • 1 General Information

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    • 1.1 RADAR Safety

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      • 1.1.1 RADAR Safety – Electrical Systems

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      • 1.1.2 RADAR Safety – Radiation

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      • 1.1.3 RADAR Safety – Mechanical Systems

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    • 1.2 Current IHO Standards / Regulatory Approvals

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    • 1.3 System Structure and Installation

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    • 1.4 Basics / Evaluation of the RADAR Video

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      • 1.4.1 Basics of the Evaluation of RADAR Video in Platinum Series

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      • 1.4.2 Achievable RADAR Range

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      • 1.4.3 Distortions of the RADAR Video

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      • 1.4.4 Undesirable Echo Displays and Effects

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      • 1.4.5 RADAR Setting for the Display of Racon Codes

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      • 1.4.6 RADAR Settings for Target Enhancer Detection

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      • 1.4.7 RADAR Setting for SART Detection (X-Band only)

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      • 1.4.8 Transmission formats

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    • 1.5 Basic setting of the RADAR Video

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    • 1.6 RADAR Accuracy

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  • 2 The RADAR Keyboard

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  • 3 An Overview of the Screen

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  • 4 RADAR Application Area

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    • 4.1 The Zoom and Pan Control

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  • 5 RADAR Sidebar - Permanent Area

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    • 5.1 RADAR Transceiver Settings

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      • 5.1.1 Transceiver Selection

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      • 5.1.2 Master / Slave Selection

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      • 5.1.3 Pulse Length

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      • 5.1.4 Adjusting the Transceiver

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    • 5.2 RADAR Video Settings

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      • 5.2.1 Gain

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      • 5.2.2 Sea

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      • 5.2.3 Rain

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      • 5.2.4 Enhance

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      • 5.2.5 Video Emphasis

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      • 5.2.6 Hide Video / Overlay

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    • 5.3 Toolset1 and 2

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      • 5.3.1 EBL

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      • 5.3.2 VRM

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      • 5.3.3 Operating VRM and EBL jointly

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    • 5.4 Parallel Index Lines (PI)

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  • 6 RADAR Sidebar - Non-Permanent Area

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  • 7 Target Handling

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    • 7.1 Overview

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    • 7.2 Manual Target Acquisition

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    • 7.3 Manual Target Selection

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    • 7.4 Automatic Target Acquisition

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    • 7.5 Settings for Dangerous Targets

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    • 7.6 Settings for Acquisition/Guard Zones

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    • 7.7 Target Fusion

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    • 7.8 Deletion and Loss of Targets

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    • 7.9 Critical Target

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    • 7.10 Target List

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    • 7.11 Target Display

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    • 7.12 Trial Manoeuvre

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    • 7.13 Reference Target Tracking

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    • 7.14 ARPA Training

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    • 7.15 ARPA Malfunctions

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    • 7.16 AIS Malfunctions

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  • 8 User Symbols

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    • 8.1 Symbols

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    • 8.2 Areas

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    • 8.3 Lines

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    • 8.4 Events and Text

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  • 9 CHARTRADAR (optional)

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    • 9.1 Overview

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    • 9.2 Basic Adjustments

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      • 9.2.1 Temporary Hiding the Chart Background

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      • 9.2.2 Selection of Charts

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      • 9.2.3 Matching the Chart with the RADAR Presentation

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      • 9.2.4 References Used

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      • 9.2.5 Range Scale and Modes

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    • 9.3 Selecting the Objects to be Displayed in the Vector Chart

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      • 9.3.1 Overview

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      • 9.3.2 Categories of Display Groups

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      • 9.3.3 Select a Category

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      • 9.3.4 Select the Primary Chart Information Set (PCIS)

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      • 9.3.5 Indication of Category in the Status Line

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      • 9.3.6 Defining the Symbol Presentation

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      • 9.3.7 Setting the Display of Text Labels

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      • 9.3.8 Switch on Additional Information

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      • 9.3.9 Switch on Conditionally Displayed Features

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    • 9.4 CHARTRADAR Application Area

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    • 9.5 Application Area Context Menu

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    • 9.6 Setting the Depths Lines to be Displayed in the Vector Chart

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    • 9.7 Setting the Own Ship’s Draft

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    • 9.8 Activating the Chart Monitoring

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    • 9.9 Setting the Look-Ahead Sector

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    • 9.10 Chart Maintenance

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    • 9.11 Main Differences between CHARTRADAR and Full ECDISPILOT

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• VOYAGE PLANNING AND MONITORING

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  • 1 Voyage Planning

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    • 1.1 Generation of Routes

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      • 1.1.1 General Information about Pre-planned Tracks

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      • 1.1.2 Generation, Handling and Administration of the Routes

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      • 1.1.3 Route Display Settings

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      • 1.1.4 Route Editing - Graphical

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      • 1.1.5 Route Editing - Text Mode

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      • 1.1.6 Details of the Waypoint Data

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      • 1.1.7 Checking of Routes

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        • 1.1.7.1 Geometrical Check

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        • 1.1.7.2 Check against the Electronic Chart and the User made Chart Objects

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        • 1.1.7.3 Computation of Sailing Times

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      • 1.1.8 Completing the Generation of the Route

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      • 1.1.9 Import / Export Routes

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  • 2 Chart and Route Monitoring

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    • 2.1 Route Monitoring: Own Ship against the System Route

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    • 2.2 Chart Monitoring: Own Ship against Vector - / User Chart Objects

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      • 2.2.1 Monitoring on the Basis of a Vector Chart

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      • 2.2.2 Monitoring against User Symbols

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• CONNING

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  • 1 Operating the Conning

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    • 1.1 General

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    • 1.2 An Overview of the Screen

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    • 1.3 Conning Display - Navigation

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    • 1.4 Docking Display

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    • 1.5 Conning Home Waypoint List

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    • 1.6 Conning Display - Machinery

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      • 1.6.1 The Rate of Turn Indication

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    • 1.7 Conning Sidebar - Permanent Area

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    • 1.8 Conning Sidebar - Non-permanent Area

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    • 1.9 The Alarm List on Conning

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      • 1.9.1 Wind and Current

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      • 1.9.2 Depth

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      • 1.9.3 Autopilot Performance

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• SENSORS

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  • 1 AIS

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    • 1.1 AIS Summarized Briefly

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    • 1.2 Overview of Functions and Operating Procedures

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    • 1.3 Setting the Voyage Data

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    • 1.4 Setting the transmitter / Transmitter Status

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    • 1.5 Channel Management

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    • 1.6 Receiving AIS Messages

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• OPTIONAL APPLICATIONS

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• MAINTENANCE

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  • 1 Performance Monitor

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  • 2 Data Maintenance of the Electronic Charts

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    • 2.1 General

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    • 2.2 Starting Chart Maintenance

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    • 2.3 Chart Maintenance Application Area

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    • 2.4 Update of Charts from Media

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    • 2.5 Messages during Chart Update

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    • 2.6 Display Charts which are on a Media or a MFD (workstation)

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    • 2.7 Maintenance of Charts on your MFD (workstation)

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    • 2.8 Display Expander

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    • 2.9 Backup/Restore of Map Data

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  • 3 Manual ENC Update Editor

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  • 4 Hardware Maintenance

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    • 4.1 Periodical Checks

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      • 4.1.1 Limited-Lifetime Devices

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    • 4.2 Check of the Colour Reproduction

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  • 5 SW Version and Updates

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    • 5.1 SW Version

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    • 5.2 SW Updates

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• ALARMS

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  • 1 General Information

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    • 1.1 Colour code for the alarm indications:

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    • 1.2 Overview of the alarm window

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      • 1.2.1 Example of an alarm

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  • 2 Alarm Management

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    • 2.1 Behaviour when an Alarm comes up

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    • 2.2 List of Alarms

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      • 2.2.1 Navigation Sensor Alarms

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      • 2.2.2 RADAR Alarms

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      • 2.2.3 AIS Alarms

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      • 2.2.4 ECDIS Alarms

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      • 2.2.5 Trackpilot Alarms

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      • 2.2.6 Trackpilot Alarm Signal Outputs

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      • 2.2.7 VDR Alarms

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      • 2.2.8 Machinery Alarms

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• LISTS AND INDEXES

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• DOCUMENT HISTORY

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  • 1 Document History

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