The course deals with the basic elements required to ensure the safety of navigation, with reference to radio navigation systems. Particularly, it focuses on the theoretical fundaments of positioning (line of positions) and on the functionality of the main radio-navigation systems.
The course furnishes some competencies required by the STCW Convention, as amended, for Deck Officers and Marine Engineers at Operational Level, embodied in the MIT decree dated 19th December 2016, namely “Percorso formativo per accedere alle figure professionali di Allievo Ufficiale di Coperta e Allievo Ufficiale di Macchina” as amended by DM MIT n. 35 (10/10/2018).
Particularly, among course competencies, there are them listed in the Attachment I of the above-mentioned decree, for Deck Officer Cadets:
C1. Echo sounder – Gyrocompass and error compensation(10 h)
C2. Radar and Radar ARPA (6 h).
C3. Position fixing through the use of radio navigation aids (32 h) –
Further details about the acquired competencies are furnished in the extended version of the programme.