User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- General Safety Precautions
- List of Contents
- 1 Overview
- 2 Basic Settings; General Remarks about Operating
- 3 PPI Settings
- 3.1 Screen Stabilisation of the PPI: True Motion, Relative Motion
- 3.2 PPI Orientation: Head-Up, North-Up, Course-Up
- 3.3 Centering / Off-Centering of the Display (Center, Off-Center)
- 3.4 Range Selection (Range)
- 3.5 Range Rings, Grid
- 3.6 Own Ship Symbols and Target Symbols, Vectors, Past Position Plots
- 3.7 Trails
- 3.8 Setting the Display of Pre-planned Tracks
- 3.9 Defining the System Track and the Next Waypoint; System Track Display
- 3.10 Setting the Display of User Chart Objects on the RADARPILOT
- 3.11 Setting the Display of Charts and User Chart Objects on the CHARTRADAR
- 3.12 Setting the Display of the Map
- 3.13 Adjusting the Chart or Map to the Radar Video
- 4 Setting the Radar Function
- 4.1 Radar Function On/Off, Interswitch Functions, Master/Slave Switch-Over
- 4.2 Basic Setting of the Radar Video
- 4.3 Selection of the Antenna Revolution Rate
- 4.4 Radar Setting for High Speed of Own Vessel (HSC)
- 4.5 Radar Setting for the Display of RACON Codes
- 4.6 Radar Setting for SART Detection (X-Band only)
- 4.7 Suppression of the Synthetics and Video
- 5 Heading, Speed, Position
- 6 Bearing and Range
- 7 ARPA Functions
- 7.1 Symbols Used
- 7.2 Procedure of the Target Acquisition
- 7.3 Manual Target Acquisition
- 7.4 Automatic Target Acquisition; Settings of the Acquisition/Guard Zone
- 7.5 Deletion of Targets, Loss of Target
- 7.6 Target Data Display
- 7.7 Target Labels
- 7.8 Selecting the Reference Targets for Reference Target Tracking
- 8 EPA Functions (Electronic Plotting Aid)
- 9 Collision Avoidance (TCPA, CPA)
- 10 Trial Manoeuvres
- 11 Editing of Pre-planned Tracks
- 12 Editing the Map
- 13 Displays in the Multidisplay
- 14 Quick Info Box
- 15 Evaluation of the Radar Video
- 16 The Radar Keyboard
- 17 Alarm Management
- 18 List of Alarms
- 19 List of the Alarm Signal Outputs
- 20 Care and Maintenance Work
- 21 Performance Monitor
- 22 System Maintenance Manager
- 22.1 Determining the Versions of Software, Hardware and Documentation
- 22.2 Listing the System Faults
- 22.3 Off-Line Selfcheck
- 22.4 Checking / Correcting the Computer Time
- 22.5 Distribution and Deletion of Map Data; Data Saving
- 22.6 Exchanging Track Files between the Indicators; Data Saving
- 22.7 The Handling of Diskettes
- 22.8 Aborting and Restarting the Program of the Radar System
ED 3038 G 232 / 01 (2002-06)
Operating Instructions
8 EPA Functions (Electronic Plotting Aid)
8.1 Manual Target Acquisition and Semi-Automatic Plotting
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RADARPILOT / CHARTRADAR
8 EPA Functions (Electronic Plotting Aid)
Subjects of this Section:
◆ Manual target acquisition on the EPA radar
◆ Semi-automatic plotting on the EPA radar
◆ Differences between the EPA radar and the ARPA radar
The EPA radar differs from the ARPA radar principally in the fact that, on the EPA radar, targets have to
be acquired manually and can only be plotted semi-automatically. Furthermore, on the EPA radar, no
targets can be defined as references for reference target tracking.
8.1 Manual Target Acquisition and Semi-Automatic Plotting
On the EPA radar, up to 50 targets can be acquired manually and tracked semi-automatically.
In the case of manual target acquisition, the presumed target video is marked, and as a result it is
initially provided with the dotted square .
For semi-automatic target tracking, the same target is marked manually with the second plot several
minutes later at its new position. The radar now computes the speed vector of the target and displays
that vector (if this function is selected - see page 34). The first plot is now displayed as the past position
plot. The target symbol
1)
changes. It moves along with the target on the computed course at the
computed speed.
The plotting must be repeated if the target symbol does not coincide with the target video, but not later
than within 15 minutes. After 10 minutes in each case, the operator is reminded by the PLOT xx NO
UPDATE alarm that a new plot should be set. If the next plot is not then performed within five minutes,
the plot is aborted and the alarm PLOT XX ABORTED appears.
Beginning the Manual Plotting
1. Click on the ACQ TGT (= Acquire Target) button; the button
flashes.
2. Acquire the target video by clicking. For as long as the ACQ
TGT button is flashing, more targets can be acquired in the
same way.
3. The acquisition function of the cursor is switched off by clicking into the PPI by means of the MORE
key or (with the DO key) by clicking again on the ACQ TGT area.
1)
The same symbols are used as with the ARPA radar - see page 67.
DO
ACQ TGT