The Adlard Coles Book Of Electronic Navigation

by Bartlett, Tim

• ISBN13: 9780713657159
• ISBN10: 0713657154
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-01
• Publisher: Adlard Coles

Summary

This guidebook is aimed at anyone with an interest in navigating small craft.

Author Biography

Tim Bartlett is a former Naval Officer, professional yacht skipper and Yachtmaster Instructor who is now a freelance yachting journalist specialising in navigation, communications, and electronics. He also trains RYA Radar Instructors and Powerboat Instructors, and is an SRC (radio licence) Assessor. He writes regularly for boating magazines worldwide and is the author of The RYA Book of Navigation, The RYA Book of Diesel Engines and The RYA Book of Outboard Motors, all published by Adlard Coles Nautical.

Table of Contents

Electronic navigation -- do we need it?	1	(3)
Case history 1: Kishmul of Ayr
Case history 2: Wahkuna
New solutions, new problems	4	(8)
The shape of the Earth
Horizontal datums
An error? What error?
...and different kinds of accuracy
Dilution of precision
Measuring error
Hardware, software and data	12	(14)
Man/machine interface
Controls
Menus and soft keys
Displays
Machine/machine interface
PC serial ports
NMEA 0183
What is GPS?	26	(8)
How it works
The satellites
Errors and accuracy
Improving the accuracy of GPS
Differential GPS
Other Satnavs
Using GPS	34	(14)
Initialising
Set-up options
Basic displays
Waypoint navigation
Route navigation
Routes and waypoints under way
Using waypoints to monitor position
Upwind sailing
GPS pilotage
Chart plotters	48	(13)
Raster charts
Vector charts
Passage planning on a plotter
Overlays
PCs on board	61	(4)
Laptops
Built-in PCs
Power supplies
Displays and controls
A look to the future
Echo sounders	65	(7)
How they work
Digital echo sounders
Forward-looking echo sounders
Installing an echo sounder
Calibrating an echo sounder
Logs	72	(4)
How it works
Installing a log
Calibrating a log
Electronic compasses	76	(3)
How a fluxgate
Installation
Self-correction
Radar -- how it works	79	(8)
First principles
Main components
Display
Power consumption and safety
Radar - getting a picture	87	(12)
Switching on and setting up
Improving the picture
Stabilisation
Measuring tools
Radar - what shows up?	99	(10)
Blind arcs and shadow sectors
What shows up?
Radar reflectors
Radar transponders
False echoes
Weather effects
Using radar for collision avoidance	109	(12)
Radar and the Colregs
Assessing the risk
Closest point of approach
Finding course and speed
Advanced radar plotting
Guard zones
ARPA and MARPA
Using radar for navigation and pilotage	121	(10)
Fix by radar bearings
Fix by radar ranges
Mixed fixes
Pilotage
Index	131