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Raymarine 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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