PROGRAM
HIGHLIGHTS
NAUTILUS
(FBS) - ADVANCED RADAR AND ARPA SIMULATOR
VER 3.0
(Apr PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS OF VER. 3.0 (May 2005)
New in
Ver. 3.0 in red
Real Life Radar Controls: The display has
trackball-activated buttons similar to those commonly used on modern shipboard
radar.
Three Display modes: Heads-up (True and Relative Bearing), CourseUp, North-up and True Motion (Land and Sea Stabilized).
Two Training Modes:
True Tangential Radar sweep: This displays the accurate
characteristics of land. (Not Smoke and Mirrors land)
Real-time Display: All targets and display elements are
in real time.
Multiple Charts and LandMass modules: Harbors and
Waterways available to train Large and Small vessel Masters. Small
Boat Harbors (Miami, FL and Newport Beach, CA) Major Shipping Harbors
(Los Angeles, Seattle and San Francisco, Ca) Inland Ferry Routes (Puget
Sound - Bremerton to Seattle and Seattle to Tacoma, WA) Rivers (Columbia
River Entrance)
Land Mass and Display Accuracy: The accuracy of the land
masses and display programming used are such that your ship’s position can be
acquired using ranges obtained and plotted on the appropriate NOAA chart.
Network Interactive Mode: The network manager has up to
16 ships that can be assigned to the students operating in real time mode. The
students can maneuver their ship independently within the same virtual world
having a radar view from the assigned ship
Set Time mode. When not in Network Mode you can change
the elapsed time. Real Time 1x, Double Time 2x and Quad Time 4x.
True Data interpretation: The program evaluates Land
introduces shadows and buoys do not, as appropriate.
Available ship types: The Maneuvering characteristic of
all major ship types from 5 to 100,00 Gross Tons can be implemented.
Range Scales: .75 to 24 nautical miles.
Range Rings: on/off.
VRM and (2) EBL Controls. Standard
and Movable.
Vectors: ARPA
heading vectors are in True and Relative Bearings.
Leaders: on/off, 3 minutes and 6 minutes run.
Course (Rudder) and Speed Controls. The students can
control their course and speed with the Trackball or
Joystick.
Parallel Cursor Controls.
Trackball controlled: All functions of the simulator are
trackball or other pointing device controlled. The student doesn’t need to
learn any keyboard strokes or overlays.
Sea and Rain Clutter control: Controls that change the
intensity for true simulation of FTC and STC implementation.
Danger Areas: The student can preset a danger area that
will provide an audible alarm when violated. When ARPA
is in use any vessel that enters the danger area that is not already hooked
will automatically acquire.
Exclusion Areas:
an exclusion area can be set in ARPA Mode.
Racon Buoys: Charted Racon buoys will show on the radar
screen with their appropriate signal. The instructor can place an additional
Racon Buoy and signal for training prepossesses on charts without Racon’s.
SART Buoy: A Search and Rescue Transponder buoy’s can
be added to the problems for training including giving it both set and
drift.
Information Function: The information function labels
all targets and lists the current scenario in use.
Ship Function: Toggles to the view of the other vessels
and allows you to take control of the other vessel in individual mode.
Multi-student bridge module: Interactive implementation
using a Local Area Network (LAN) with each student maneuvering his or her own
vessel. (Interactive or Series Operation.)
Advanced ARPA Readout: The ARPA Readout
Simulate problems found in real Radar readouts. The Information will be
inaccurate for ½ to 3 minutes depending on the relative speed of the contact.
Gyro failure: Gyro failure can be simulated forcing the Radar
to display Heads-up only, sounds a Gyro Alarm and loses all ARPA readouts. This
feature will be executed Randomly and can be activated for any or all stations.
Speed Log Failure: Speed Log Failure can be simulated at any or all
stations. Own ship will lose speed input, show zero speed and lose all ARPA
readouts. An alarm will sound.
Marker Drop: The Full Bridge ARPA allows you to drop a marker.
This Marker can be used to mark a Man Overboard (MOB) or any position of
special interest.
Lost Target: This function will cause a "locked on
Target" to be lost, sounding an alarm and require it be manually relocked.
Enhanced Danger Areas: Danger Areas of 20°, 180°, 220°, 360°
with ranges of .25\. 5, .5\1, 1\2, 2\4 3\6 nautical miles. A sound on off
button has been added.
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