Archive: May 1st 2012

ECDIS anomalies demonstrate need for regular maintenance

Date: May 1, 2012

Earlier this year we talked to UKHO’s Hugh Phillips about the problems identified by the International Hydrographic Bureau (IHB) whereby some, especially older, ECDIS were subject to software anomalies, which might result in some navigation data not displaying correctly.

The IHB developed and issued a check dataset in late 2011 to alert mariners to these problems and last month it issued a further circular advising that of about 500 responses received, only one third of ECDIS units tested functioned completely as expected.

Tags: Admiralty, Admiralty Vector Chart Service, AVCS, bridge navigation, ECDIS, ECDIS anomalies, ENC, ENCs, Hugh Philips, hydrographic offices, IHB, IMO, International Hydrographic Bureau, International Maritime Organisation, Maritime Safety Committee, MSC, NAVAREA, nextNAV, Notices to Mariners, Radar, safety of navigation, satcoms, software upgrade, UKHO

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