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10 ECDIS questions SIRE inspectors ask and how to deal with it?

ECDIS SIRE Questions I cannot tell you how much do I enjoy writing on ECDIS.

I truly feel that ECDIS has made the navigation so much safer.

Well, many still do not agree with this statement and I respect their opinion too.

There is definitely merit in their opinion if that is based on the fact that not many officers are trained to handle the ECDIS in the right way.

I personally have seen a few officers sweat out in front of SIRE inspectors when they ask the questions related to ECDIS.

But they sweat out because they have not been adequately trained. And even if they wanted to self-train themselves, there is hardly any user-friendly information available.

But not anymore. No more sweating out for ECDIS questions.

In this blog, we will discuss all that SIRE inspectors ask a 2nd mate during his bridge inspection.

And I will discuss these with respect to JRC ECDIS.

So let us start with our first question.

Question 1: Can you show me the last passage plan on ECDIS?

This is the first question and this is the most important one too.

The passage needs to be accurate must follow all the company requirements and must be in accordance with the industry guidelines.

I have covered the general passage planning in this blog ...

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Mustufa Kamal May 6, 2020

This is really very useful. Thanks a lot for your contribution

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Pricop Claudiu May 8, 2020

Good day,Captain.I just like to ask you about W.O. line,because i see a lot of comments about this line and specially where we put the line for Brg. x Dist. in the WP or in the position where we will put the W.O. line. Good day and thank you for your time.

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Ye Wunna May 9, 2020

Thanks a lot Capt Well noted.

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Eric joseph ebreo May 11, 2020

Thankyou captain, i really learned a lot in your blogs

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Kamalakannan C May 11, 2020

Good day sir. The nav warnings are supposed to be done by way of manual update on the ECDIS, especially if involving navigational marks and changes to them. The attribute function in manual update take care of lot of additional features like color / shape / top marks as well as the start and end dates. By putting an end date of after passing that particular area, the manual update automatically disables the change. While doing passage plan checks, date dependent view needs to be enabled. Thanks again.

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Doğacan January 7, 2022

Good day, actually using user chart for nav. warnings is way more practical and the right way. Before i explain that first we have to look at the differences between user chart and manual update, the first consideration is like you said manual updates have much more additional features like color / shapes. On the other hand for example if you apply " firing exercise" as a manual update when you do the route checks it will appears as a "caution", if you use user chart feature with the dangerous ticked you will have "warning" on your route check. And the other and more important thing is when you check T&P notices you will see some of the Charts did not have the T&P notices as a AIO -(you can check them on AIO read me file as a list)- and this is the main purpose of the manual update when you find T&P / EP notices which is not implement on your ENC you have to add them as a manual update. Also some ECDIS manufacturers do not have any features to show what is the EP? so basically you can only see number of EP so you have to check and apply notices manually.

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Filip May 11, 2020

Hello. I would just like to mention one thing referring to the Q5 - ploting nav warnings with user maps. It is true that warnings plotted like this does not generate any alarms with one exception. When you're plotting the warning, and you use the "warning" symbol, in the user maps editor, this symbol will generate an alarm, if caught by the look ahead sector. And it can be easily demonstrated to SIRE inspector. Just open a new user maps editor, and plot a warning symbol in the arc sector of your look ahead setting. And there you have it.

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Cimbo June 8, 2022

Correct Filip. But I think if you are using warning from user chart than some other warnings from the ENC can be covered and not alarmed.

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Harjinder Singh May 16, 2020

Goodday sir great work thanks for efforts..sir can you pls explain how to calculate and insert wheel over point in ecdis and also how to decide radius value used in each leg

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Saurabh May 18, 2020

This article is of great help Sir, Thank you for your great work.

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RAUL June 10, 2020

THANKS A LOT SIR OF THOSE POSSIBLE QUESTION BY INSPECTOR OR PSC I REALLY ENCOUNTERED THAT SUCH QUESTION BY PSC BUT YOURS I ADMIT AND I READ MUCH GOOD ANSWER OF THOSE QUESTION IVE GAIN OR LEARNED SOMETHING FOR YOU SIR THANKS FOR YOUR SHARING

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AUNG SI LWIN August 12, 2020

Special thanks for your help, sir. Lets me Noted.

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Ramesh kumar September 19, 2020

Sir pls make on transas ecdis navi sailor 4000 , how to update how to make route, how to order chart through navi sailor 4000

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Nana December 2, 2020

Thankyou capt, i became more confident for my sire inspection next week after read this.

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Thomas December 8, 2020

Thank you captain

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YAHYA SAIF MOHAMMED February 6, 2021

I'm reading it 30 minutes b4 viting ???? thanx mate

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Mahaveer June 5, 2021

Position dropped alarm showing in NS 4000 TRANA SAS ECDIS ? What I do for this?

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Goraksha Ghule June 27, 2021

Nice work sir One correction in question no 9 method 2: Instead of using manual update line around the safety depth in order to have alarmed line after entering safety contour , we can strait a way use alarmed line i.e. warning line in user map function which is very suitable and easy to use

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AGNALDO GOES June 29, 2021

Very Good ...

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khrsto December 26, 2021

Very usefull information. I'd like to add that the most accurate method to check if your ECDIS gives you correct position, is Radar Overlay Function, This is recognized by British Admiralty as the best way to check your positions on ECDIS accurate or not.

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Jyoti Naidu January 5, 2022

I'm so glad you wrote this blog post about 10 questions SIRE inspectors ask and how to deal with it. It's so rare to find a blog post that is full of good information on this topic and also able to stray away from the typical answer of "please don't be scared." I'm looking forward to reading more! Merchant Navy

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Jyoti Naidu January 11, 2022

Thank you sharing such a useful information. Merchant Navy

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Wayne Grayson and Associates March 8, 2022

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About Capt Rajeev Jassal

Capt. Rajeev Jassal has sailed for over 24 years mainly on crude oil, product and chemical tankers. He holds MBA in shipping & Logistics degree from London. He has done extensive research on quantitatively measuring Safety culture onboard and safety climate ashore which he believes is the most important element for safer shipping.