18. NAVIGATION SENSORS
The latitude and longitude position indication is shown in yellow characters when the
position align feature is active.
18.8.2
How to cancel position alignment
Click the [Offset] button to cancel the position offset.
18.9
Wind Sensor
ECDIS can display and output wind data in the following three formats:
Apparent: Windmeter-measured wind speed and direction.
Wind angle reference: Heading
North: True wind angle, true wind speed, referenced to North
Wind angle reference: True North
Theoretical: True wind angle, true wind speed, referenced to heading
Wind angle reference: Heading
The illustration below shows wind speed and direction with given ship data.
The wind values are as shown below.
Ship information:
COG: 60°
SOG: 8.7 kn
Heading: 45°
Apparent
North (true wind, referenced to North)
Theoretical (true wind, referenced to heading)
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Wind angle
Wind speed
345°
10 kn
330°
5 kn
285°
5 kn