Vidusayura

Instructor Station

The Instructor Station (Control Room) contains all the necessary hardware, software and additional equipment, in order to perform the following functions:

Before the beginning of the exercise, the instructor is be able to:

• select the exercise area
• create a new scenario with the scenario editor module or select a pre-saved scenario
• select the own ships and surrounding ships type (from database)
• select the number of own ships (joint or individual scenario) and the number of surrounding ships
• select sailing conditions (state of sea, winds, current, visibility, time of day)
• on-screen visualization of scene content (sky, sea, terrain, visibility, own ship)

Physically Constructed Ship Bridge

The Physically Constructed Ship Bridge is a realistic mock-up of a real ship bridge, including a well balanced combination between real (“hands-on”) and virtual (“on-screen”) navigation equipment.

The main requirements for the Full Mission Bridge are:

Mock-up of a ship bridge structure, including:

• Windows
• Access doors
• Layout of the navigational equipment

Real ships controls:

• Steering wheel
• Throttle

Real ships indicators:

• Rudders indicator
• RPM indicator
• Compass indicator

Radar equipment:

• Radar control panel
• Medium screen display
• Radar simulation software

ECDIS equipment:

• ECDIS control panel
• Medium screen display
• ECDIS simulation software

Sound system:

• Alarm panel
• Engine sound simulation software
• Surrounding sound simulation software

Communications:

• Real VHF radiotelephone
• Internal communication system (interphone)

Visualization System:

• 3 Projection screens for 120 degrees horizontal field of view
• Video Projection equipments
• Visualization software