13. Route Planning
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13.4.4 How to use the Parameters page
The Parameters page allows you to set departure time and arrival time for your route. Also optimization type is
selected on this page.
Enable changes:
Check in order to enable editing.
Note: A route may only be modified when using the north-up or course-up mode.
Description:
Enter note concerning the route.
ETD/UTC:
Planned estimated time of departure from a specified waypoint.
ETA/UTC:
First part is planned estimated time of arrival to last waypoint. ETA can be calculated
between two specified waypoints.
Second part is calculated ETA that may differ from planned ETA if it is impossible for them
to agree with selected optimization method. Also total length of the route is displayed.
Safety margin MIN:
Define extension for channel to be checked against selected alerts.
Speed limit:
Set speed limit for a route.
Optimize:
Optimize types are max. speed, timetable, max profit and min. cost. (Description is
provided in section 13.6.1 "Available route optimization strategies".)
Income:
Budget for this voyage. ( Income * 1000$)
Note: A route may only be modified when using the north-up or course-up mode.
How to optimize your route
After all waypoints are inserted and you have made safe water calculation, you can optimize your route. If not
selected, then optimization will be done automatically with max. speed. If you want do optimization with specific
strategy, see section 13.6.1 "Available route optimization strategies".
13.4.5 How to use the Prepare page
The Prepare page allows you to prepare for exchange of planned route with monitored route. Use this page if you
are going to use the exchange function to select planned route as monitored route. If you do not use this page to
define To WPT and Final WPT for steering in the planning mode, ECDIS will select the most suitable To WPT
based on your ship's position and Final WPT based on waypoint selected on the Parameters page.
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