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Route monitoring
Introduction
The ROUTE MONITOR push button provides access to the functions for monitoring routes. Use of the ROUTE
MONITOR is a means for permanent monitoring of the vessel’s behaviour relative to the monitored route. The
Information area displays the data on the vessel’s position relative to the monitored route. The monitored route
consists of following information in the electronic chart area:
• The route is displayed as red dots
• The limits of channels of each leg are displayed as red lines. These limits are used to detect
Chart Alarms when you are monitoring the route. See also chapter "Chart Alarm calculation".
• Each leg has information about planned speed shown in rectangular
• Each leg has information about planned course to steer
NOTE! In order to display charts with correctly updated situation, use always current date as Approve Until and
Display Until during your voyage. If your voyage lasts more than one week set current date at least once per week
during your voyage.
For more information, see chapter "Date dependent and periodical features of S57 chart".
Operation of Route monitor push button is following:
1. When you press ROUTE MONITOR push button, ROUTE MONITORING dialog box will
appear to Dialog box area.
2. If you already have ROUTE MONITORING dialog box on display and you press ROUTE
MONITOR push button, you will get Route monitor menu on display.
.Select:
You can select already existing route to be monitoring.
Cancel:
You can close route file, which was selected to be monitored route.