User's Manual

Table Of Contents
NACOS Platinum
ED 3100 G 140 / 04 (2011-11)
Operating Instructions
I-5 NACOS Platinum Graphical User Interface
I General.fm / 10.11.11
I-52
5.3.1 Permanent Area
The upper half of the sidebar is the permanent area. It shows status information and controls that are
mandatory according to regulations and thus must be permanently visible. In addition, the permanent
area can show information that is not mandatory but which you would expect to be permanently visible
or that are de facto standards. This area can never be overlapped or hidden by permanent pop-ups or
dialogue windows.
The height of the permanent area varies between the applications since some NACOS Platinum applica-
tions require more permanently visible information that others. For instance, RADAR requires more
permanent controls than the Machinery application. The figure below shows the permanent area of the
RADAR application:
Fig. I / 19 Sidebar – permanent area of the RADAR application
The RADAR application has the largest permanent area in the system since it requires the most manda-
tory controls. The RADAR permanent area is divided into two columns containing various groups. The
following information are provided in the groups:
- Display
containing orientation, motion, range and reference controls.
- Heading and Speed (of own ship).
Drift is not mandatory but it is included based on an early investigation into S-mode requirements.
- Position
- Vector and Trails
- Chart
- Targets
- RADAR
containing the radar transceiver controls