Simrad Maris ECDIS900 Operator's Manual page 270

Short Description
C
HART
The management of electronic charts is an essential part of the ECDIS and is described in
details in ECDIS900 user manual.
ECDIS900 is compatible all types of official electronic charts, ENC or AVCS which can be
ordered and updated in real time thanks to MBA (MDS), the online MARIS chart service.
R
OUTE
ECDIS900 provides efficient tools to plan the route and to monitor the active route. See the
Route plan section for a complete description.
W
EATHER PANEL
The weather panel is accessible in the ECDIS900 Console area and allows loading / unloading
weather data file and customize the display on the chart.
IMPORTANT:
please note that the calculation of optimal route by the module does not
depend on the weather and current display on the screen, meaning that the optimization is
run even the weather data is not loaded and displayed on the map.
Weather routing procedure searches on the hard disk for the latest data available.
When weather – current forecasts are available the module calculates the optimal route.
When data is not available, meaning that there are no forecasts available for either the selected departure
date or for the route area, the system cannot calculate any optimized route and provides the great circle
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