Navmaster Pilot - Portable electronic chart system
for marine pilots
Navmaster Pilot is a simple-to-use electronic chart system based on Type
Approved Navmaster ECDIS software and with additional features to assist
pilots.
Navmaster Pilot provides software and wireless interfacing so that a pilot
can connect his own laptop to ship's AIS within minutes of arriving onboard.
No cables are necessary: communications between laptop and ship's AIS pilot
plug are wireless.
The system has been extensively tested by UK deep sea pilots, and the test
results reported in The Pilot magazine. Captain Andrew Ward, UK deep sea
pilot said.
The system works together excellently and is user-friendly.
I can certainly recommend this system to anyone intending to go electronic.
PC Maritime have been extremely helpful in the initial set-up and fine-tuning
of the system.
Key benefits
- Automatic download of ship's dimensions from AIS
- Automatic position monitoring (from AIS and/or GPS)
- Route and passage planning
- Multiple chart format compatibility
- Online chart updating
- Interface to Admiralty TotalTide
- Interface to Proudman Tidal Stream
The complete Navmaster Pilot set-up
- You Need
- A laptop with Windows XP or 2000
We supply
- Navmaster Pilot software
- Bluetooth wireless interface to ship's pilot plug
- Electronic charts as appropriate
Options
- Bluetooth USB dongle.
If your laptop does not have Bluetooth capability, you can add a Bluetooth
USB dongle
- Bluetooth GPS
To maintain a back-up position source, you can add a Bluetooth GPS
to your set-up
The Bluetooth Pilot (bottom right) with pilot plug connector attached.
Also attached is the USB battery pack. Not shown is a UISB travel charger.
The total weight of all these components is less than 300g.
Navmaster Pilot main features
AIS Interfacing
- AIS interfacing includes the automatic download of ship's dimensions
- Clear display of AIS target information
- Information filtered between Dynamic, Static and Voyage
- On-screen labelling, selectable by the user
- Quick View button to display selected text labels momentarily
- Display true scale target outline with solid or transparent fill
- Manual entry option for ship's dimensions
Route and passage planning
- Alternate route, which can be displayed onscreen alongside the primary
route
- Multiple routes display
- Chart annotations including text, points, lines, areas
- Alarms & warnings generated from ENC charts, eg hazards, cautionary
areas
- Ability to draw your own safety contours to obtain alarms (eg when using
ARCS charts)
- Ability to set alarms at critical points (eg call VTS)
Position monitoring
- Navmaster accepts a primary and secondary position input
- Secondary position source via Bluetooth GPS as back-up
- If the primary input fails, Navmaster automatically switches to the
secondary
- Full range of VRMs, EBLs, parallel indexing etc
- ETA calculation
- Danger and safety contour alarms
- Off track alarms (XTE)
Voyage data recording
- Ability to record all sensor inputs from ship - this is in addition
to the normal log and track record
- Ability to replay the data at a later date including AIS targets, in
real time or speeded up
Electronic Charts
- Compatible with ARCS, CM-ENC, BSB, C-Map CM93/3, Seafarer
- Online updating
- Update history management
- Visual display of previously applied updates
Tidal height and stream
- Direct interfacing to Admiralty TotalTide
- Integration with Proudman Tidal Stream models for UK and continental
shelf
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