ECDIS Generic Competency Assurance Training

Welcome to your ECDIS Competency Assurance Training, or ECDIS ACAT as it is better known.

The course is designed to refresh your knowledge of the ECDIS Generic course.

It ensures that the officers understand:

  1. How to operate the ECDIS equipment, use the navigational functions of ECDIS, select and assess all relevant information and take proper action in the case of a malfunction.
  2. The potential errors of displayed data and the usual errors of interpretation.
  3. Why ECDIS should not be relied upon as the sole reliable aid to navigation.

The course takes between 1 to 2 days on average, and may require the seafarer to have direct access to their ECDIS.

The course modules are:

  1. Introduction
  2. Concept and Capability
  3. Legal Aspects
  4. Principle Types of Electronic Charts
  5. Familiarisation
  6. ECDIS Data
  7. Presentation of Data
  8. Chart Management
  9. Navigational Tools
  10. Sensors
  11. Errors and Alarms
  12. Route Planning
  13. Confined Waters planning
  14. Route Monitoring
  15. Position Fixing
  16. Voyage Data Recording
  17. Back-up Systems
  18. Legacy Training
  19. Consolidation Test

Regardless of where or when previous ECDIS training has taken place, this course is designed to consolidate knowledge.

Please note: All topics MUST be completed in order. If you attempt a different topic, you will see a blank page. Once completed you can go back at any time and view all previous topics.