[image] Navigation: Why ECDIS needs a new approach Prompted by an increasing number of grounding incidents, UK and Danish authorities have just published a major report that raises serious questions about the...

agreed I love the passage planning feature

It sucks that unless you have two separate ECDIS on the Bridge You still need to have Paper Charts So what’s the point on these newer Super ATBs and Supply Boats, The company will only buy one, Even though they just spent 50+ million Dollars on a Vessel.

ECDIS requirements stopped at 3000grt last I looked it up, so most supply boats dont require them under the rules? Is that still true?

I agree the ECDIS with paper charts back-up is a bad solution. At least in my experience. First there is the extra workload of ordering charts, keep them updated and drawing the tracklines on top of having to maintain the primary ECDIS. Not having that second ECDIS makes it difficult for the seco…

not sure But it seems that anything that sells itself as a SOLAS vessel has to have it,

the 2 are for redundancy also costs go up as both need individual UPS, havent checked but I imagine gps antenna each etc? ECDIS in DP2 mode…

Maintaining a full paper chart portfolio has costs as well The ECDIS with chart back-up might be OK on some ships that always trade in the same area and not a lot of time is spend on planning. For ships that trade over wide areas or jump from trade to trade using paper charts as a back-up probably…

I remember a few megaychts with AO printers to download and print out charts they didnt have… ECDIS all the way now although we used to give the charts away to the bosses guests so they remembered where they went

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 on the bridge are another total IMO/Class/Flag failure. On DP vessels ( more gear and PC’s) cant tell you how many times 3 or 4 on the bridge are pulling panels everywhere to find what box some alarm sound is coming from. I guess we got lucky that never happened at a critical time or the fa…

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