Creating a procedure for setting up ECIDS

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Setting up a procedure is not something that the ship’s crew should have to do. But someone needs to do it.

Here’s an old post:

As far as the premise of the linked article in the OP, I do agree the making the interface more user friendly would be a needed change. As it the a joining second mate can face a very steep learning curve just ordering and downloading the charts for example

The reports of ships just silencing the alarms is another indication.

I got a CD from the ECDIS class with a checklist to use as guidance for setting up the ECDIS. I spend almost three days in port one time and spend all my spare time to working up some checklist / procedures based on the manuals and CDs which greatly reduced our problems with nuisance alarms. UKC and depth contours not set properly are the cause of most of most nuisance alarms.

It’d been far better if that guidance had been provided to the crew in the first place rather than having to work up our own.

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There’s more to it than just creating a written procedure, it has to be integrated with the voyage plan. For example if a report can be created showing the results of the route check kept as a record same as other parts the voyage plan are kept/archived.

All this is still far less work then maintaining paper charts.

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