RYA Small Craft Radar Course

Radar is one of the best aids you have onboard your yacht, all you need to know is how to operate it and understand the picture you get. We us a real Raymarine C120 dispaly unit so you get the best posable training o how to use a small craft radar unit.

We are familiar with the Raymarine (Raytheon) Pathfinder SL70 and C/E-Series of Radar and the JRC Radar 1000

Topics covered:-

• General safety precautions in using equipment.
• Basic understanding of radar wave propagation.
• Conditions giving rise to abnormal propagation.
• Set up procedure, functions and correct use of controls.
• Radar set components.
• Target definition and discrimination
• Passive and active Radar reflectors.
• Radar beamwidth over distance
• Collision Avoidance
  • Plotting rules and techniques
  • Plotting Aids - Use of Mini Automatic Radar Plotting Aid (MARPA), based on Raymarine C120.
  • AIS - Automatic Identification System (not part of the RYA syllabus, but we cover it)
• Use of Radar as a navigation aid.
• Accuracy and inaccuracies of radar.

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Course	Select Date	Price
	9 October 2010 13 November 2010	£90.00

Interested in attending, then please phone 01489 565100 or send us an enquiry and we will phone you:-

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