User's Manual

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NACOS Platinum

ED 3100 G 140 / 04 (2011-11)

Operating Instructions

C-1 Voyage Planning

C VOYAGE PLANNING & MONITORING.fm

C-6

Routes each have a first waypoint and a last one. During editing, all waypoints are automatically

numbered consecutively, beginning at 1 for the first waypoint. All route functions refer to this sequence.

Thus, a route can only be sailed in the direction for which it has been generated.

However, the direction of a route that has already been generated can be reversed by means of a simple

operating step during editing and then processed further - see figure below.

Fig. C / 2 Shape of the pre-planned track in the case of course changes

There is practically no limit to the number of waypoints that a route can consist of, or to the length of

a route. Thus, the entire route between two ports can be defined as one pre-planned track. It can often

be appropriate to divide the entire distance up into individual routes.

For example, if a port is approached from various directions along various routes, it might be appropriate

to perform separation into the port-related segment that is identical for all routes and the part that is

specific for the route concerned. In this way, the data relating to the port need to be input once only,

and the maintenance of these data only has to take place in one dataset.

Last

waypoint

(From WPT)

Actual waypoint

(To WPT)

Track

line

WOP

waypoint

Track

curve