ECDIS (IMO model course)

This Skills Programme is aimed at:

• Masters
• Deck Officers 
• Pilots
• Tug Masters
• Navy Seagoing Officers

This course is based on using the technology of simulation to enhance safety of Navigation by providing the knowledge and skills necessary to fully utilize the features of ECDIS.

The learning themes covered by the course content are: 

• Legal Aspects & Requirements
• Principal Types of electronic charts
• ECDIS data
• Presentation of Chart data
• Sensors
• Basic Navigation functions & settings
• Specific functions for route planning & monitoring
• Updating
• Display & function of other navigational information
• Errors in Display data & interpretation
• Status indications, indicators & alarms
• Documentation
• Integrity monitoring & Back-up
• Risk of over-reliance on ECDIS