ELECTRONIC NAVIGATION COURSE SYLLABUS

The aim of this course is to teach how to navigate with and use an electronic Chart plotter. It covers all of the common screen views and functions of a modern chart plotter including how to setup way points and routes, how to overlay Radar onto a chart plotter screen and how to interpret the data that it provides including Bearing to waypoint and cross track error.

1. Chart plotters
   • Features and screens
   • Types of receiver
   • Errors and accuracy
   • terminology
   • features
     • Datums, Waypoints, Routes, Tracks
   •  Electronic Chart types
   •  Updating charts & Software
   • Equipment Interfacing
     • NMEA and proprietary interfaces
     • DSC radios
2. Navigation using GPS
   • Position fixing
     • Latitude & Longitude
     • Bearing & Distance to a WPT
     • Confirmation of position by an independent source
   • Passage planning using WPTs and Routes
   • Course to Steer allowing for Tides & Leeway
   • Course shaping