Welcome to your ECDIS Generic Model Course – Sixth Generation

The course is designed to enhance your knowledge of the ECDIS Generic course and bring you up to date with the latest ECDIS rules and regulations as well as equipment capabilities.

It ensures that ECDIS Operators understand:

1. How to operate the ECDIS equipment, use the navigational functions of ECDIS, select and assess all relevant information and take proper action in the case of a malfunction.
2. The potential errors of displayed data and the usual errors of interpretation.
3. Why ECDIS should not be relied upon as the sole reliable aid to navigation.

The course takes between 1 to 2 days on average, and may require the seafarer to have direct access to their ECDIS.

The course modules are:

1. Introduction
2. Principle Types of Charts
3. Legal Aspects
4. Presentation of Data
5. Chart Options
6. SMS Support
7. Generic Software Issues
8. Generic Hardware Issues
9. Route Planning
10. Errors and Alarms
11. Position Fixing
12. Route Monitoring
13. Sensors
14. Confined Waters
15. Consolidation Test

Regardless of where or when previous ECDIS training has taken place, this course is designed to enhance knowledge and bring you up to date.

Please note: All topics MUST be completed in order. If you attempt a different topic, you will see a blank page. Once completed you can go back at any time and view all previous topics.