Successful study of the academic discipline involves the following learning outcomes:

- Ability to plan and conduct a passage in accordance with the General Provisions on Ship’s Routeing taking into consideration the limitation  of the vessel’s current draft and other circumstances for safe operation of the voyage.

-Ability to manoeuvre and handle a ship in all conditions with appropriate methods to determine the ship’s position, as well as using modern electronic navigational aids and Electronic Chart Display Information System (ECDIS);  Specific knowledge of their operating principles, limitations, sources of errors and detection of misrepresentation of information; know methods of correction to obtain accurate position fixing; the interrelationship and optimal use of all navigational data available for conducting navigation.

-skills for evaluating navigational information received from all sources, in particular ECDIS for making decisions to avoid a collision and manage the safe navigation of the vessel; navigation techniques under

conditions of absence of visibility;

- the ability to use ECDIS to ensure the safety of navigation, including safe

waters and approaching dangers, stationary and drifting, cartography;

- data and scaling, route acceptability, object detection and control, and sensor integration.

Acquiring learning outcomes on the educational component is achieved by studying the following sections:

1.General information about navigation and information systems and

electronic charts (EC).

2. Equipment and user interface of ECDIS, its control bodies and

principles of operation.

3. Management of warning signals requiring operator control.

Selection of charts and selection of scale. Changing settings;

4. Management of information display in ECDIS and preliminary passage planning;
5. Executive passage planning in ECDIS. Solutions to basic navigation tasks;
6. Planning a passage through a difficult section and performing the planned route by means of ECDIS;

7. Charting ARPA information on the EC. AIS functions. Acquisition and installation of charts data. ENC correction (proofreading).