Electronic Navigation Equipment Maintenance (MCA Recognised)

Course information:
Electronic Navigation Equipment Maintenance (MCA Recognised)

Course summary:
Course fee - EU £1500 - non-EU £2700

Dates available -

19/04/2010

Course content:
This course is designed to enable those who have a knowledge of electronics to apply it to a range of electronic navigational aids. The course will cover the principles of operation and block functional mode of each piece of equipment. Where applicable its interfacing with other items of equipment will be investigated.

Safety
Personal safe working practices when working on navigational equipment and safety of the vessel when involved with equipment used for navigational purposes.

Range
Steering equipment:
Operation of all controls; three term controllers - functional analysis of systems diagram.

Logs:
Doppler and electromagnetic logs; interfacing with bridge equipment.

Gyro:
Operation and maintenance (interfacing).

Satellite Navigational:
GPS

Loran/ECDIS & AIS:
Principle of operation and integrated systems.

ARPA & Radar:
Principles of operation of radar systems (Polar and Raster scan).
Functional approach to target acquisition and synthetics. Approximately 50% of this course will be devoted to practical work using the College's fully equipped laboratory, which is dedicated to electronic navigational systems.

Assessment procedure:
Practical and theoritical assessment is conducted throughout the course.


Qualifications achieved:
MCA recognised certificate.