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Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (ECDIS) Simulator Training Merchant Navy Training Board 1 st edition (amended) ...

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ii Contents Page Introduction: iii Use of Simulators in Training and Assessment: iv Conditions for MCA Approval of Short Courses ...

iii Introduction The requirements for Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (ECDIS) certification are set out in Chap ...

iv Use of simulators in training and assessment The use of simulators, performance standards and other requirements is referred ...

v Conditions for MCA approval of short courses 1 Training centres offering training and assessment leading to the issue of a cer ...

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1 ECDIS training course requirements Aims The aims of the training are to equip the candidate with the fundamental knowledge and ...

2 course objectives. The requirements of Section A-I/12 of the STCW Code governing the use of simulators for training and assess ...

3 of candidates’ achievements must be kept and retained for subsequent verification. It is a condition that candidates have 100% ...

4 Annex A - Guidelines on simulator exercises The outcomes of the training (see Annex C) will be achieved by using a series of r ...

5 Annex B – IMO performance standards for the use of simulators for training and assessment Use of simulators The performance s ...

6 General performance standards for simulators used in assessment of competence 2. Each Party shall ensure that any simulator us ...

7 coastlines, navigational buoys and search and rescue transponders; and .3 create a real-time operating environment incorporati ...

8 .5 trainees are effectively debriefed to ensure that training objectives have been met and that operational skills demonstrate ...

9 Annex C – Outcomes of the training The ECDIS Training Course specification has been developed by the Merchant Navy Training Bo ...

10 Outcome 1 The candidate can use the Electronic Chart Display Information System (ECDIS) to maintain safety of navigation and ...

11 .4 demonstrate efficient use of setting to ensure conformance with operational procedures, including; .1 alarm parameters for ...

12 Outcome 2 The candidate can use ECDIS as an integral part of effective bridge resource management, in open and confined water ...

13 Annex D – Training and assessment in the operational use of Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (ECDIS) Extract ...