displays a legend and information about the loaded S57 cells under the ship’s
position and provides indication for 'Better chart exists' and 'NON-ENC dataon display'.
gives access to edition tools to work on the electronic chart and with a user
defined data.
Route monitoring panels (Active Waypoint, Fixed ETA and Waypoint ETA) are described in the
Chapter
.
TIME INDICATOR
Time information is displayed in the panel Time.
ECDIS900 operates and displays the local time, which is calculated from UTC time and time
zone information. The ECDIS900 time format is encoded and is not linked with the Windows
settings.
The operator can adjust the UTC time manually or choose UTC time to be automatically
adjusted from the GPS.
The operator is responsible for the manual selection of the time zone.
EXAMPLE
The Japanese time zone is –9 meaning that the local time is calculated from UTC by adding 9
hours.
ECDIS always displays the local time with the time zone information.
ROUTE AND LOCAL TIME
According to the time zone map, ECDIS900 automatically assigns a time zone for each
waypoint and calculates the ETA in local time.
NOTE
The operator can adjust the time zone manually for each waypoint in the Waypoint
Properties window
USE PC TIME OPTION
Toggle on the check box Use PC Time to use as ECDIS tile the time set up in the Windows
time settings.
SCALE INDICATOR
C
URRENT SCALE
Displays the current scale of the chart.
SCALE WARNINGS WITH VECTOR CHARTS
• When the current scale is more than two times the compilation scale of the ENC cell the
scale indicator is displayed in yellow together with the warning “Overscale”. This warning
is also displayed in the Legend panel.
• If own ship’s position is covered by an ENC with a larger scale than the scale in use the
warning “BC” in the scale indicator indicates a better chart available and “Better chart
exists” is displayed in the Legend panel.
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