[image] Container giant 'Mumbai Maersk' aground at German Wadden Island Have always claimed , that paper charts offer " what you see is what you get" package, while ecdis gives " what you see, is what you know how to get it" . The user has some control over what is displayed in both cases. On…

[image] Kennebec_Captain: In my experience the ECDIS will likely not be set-up correctly without good written instructions. As in many evolutions, the outcomes are always better if expectations are made known at the outset with clear instructions and procedures. Just assuming everyone knows …

Stockholm and Andrea Doria for example.

[image] wearrepair: Stockholm and Andrea Doria for example Or, with ARPA almost 25 years later, Exxon Chester and Regal Sword.

Indeed, all Captains & Mates should be competent in the use of any and all essential navigational equipment. There may be “some” validity to “People who complain about ECDIS are just projecting their own inadequacies”, but you can’t discount concerns over power loss issues, crashing of ECDIS’s, and…

How can you go from a paper chart with manual updates. Put it on a screen with gps and fail?? Total failure of I.T.

ECDIS is perfectly fine when used appropriately but another factor that is often overlooked in my opinion is the age of the hardware and software that is being used. Companies don’t always see eye to eye with the operators of the vessel when it comes to upgrading hardware (or software for that matte…

the DP world has gotten on well with PC’s ( since before PC’s even existed) which realy shows up ECDIS’s issues.

The ECDIS running process, that is the collection, processing and display of navigation information happens with minimal intervention by the watchstander but the set-up process is highly prone to human error. The chance of an error during set-up is orders of magnitude higher the the chance of an…

[image] DamnYankee: The band-aid approach is a recipe for disaster if you are putting all of your eggs in the ECDIS basket. This is true but what are the chances of two ECDIS failing simultaneously or nearly so? Very remote chance. Assuming no ECDIS what’s the worse case scenario? Pilots ty…

[image] powerabout: the DP world has gotten on well with PC’s Every ECDIS I’ve used is just a fancy Windows PC, just like DP systems.

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