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Captain Boguslaw Grabowski, a master mariner had instructor, has developed a set of computer programs which allows the user to create and use a variety of radar models varying from a static display to an advance radar simulator.
The programs are interactive allowing the user to actively take part in an exercise by altering courses, speed, ranges etc.
The hardware requirements are: a MS-DOS computer with 512K of RAM, an EGA, VGA or substitute ATI ‘Wonder Card’,a ‘Hi-Res’ color monitor, and a dot matrix or laser printer.
Installation of the program is straight forward.
It s user friendly and an ideal tool for students taking radar courses, navigators refreshing their radar skills, and owners, attorneys and marine accident reconstruction experts to analyze collisions or close quarters situations.
Using this program, you can solve radar plotting problems instantaneously, analyze relative movement of a target, create, save and print out exercises, run the simulator with either preset or random generated targets, maneuver either your own ship or the targets, change range, read CPA, TCPA, course, speed and aspect of any target at any time, toggle ARPA functions and much more.
While most users will use the program to enhance their skills, with all of these capabilities, the software is an excellent tool to reconstruct an accident using the best information available and to print it out to be used as an exhibit. It can also be used to show the results of alternative actions available to the mariner, or that the action which one of the vessels involved in a collision claims to have taken could not possible have occurred.
Captain Grabowski has informed us that the program has been used in two nautical colleges. He continues to make improvements in the program, but we think it is a valuable tool now.
The software comes in several versions. The basic version costs $US135 and the advanced version $US295. Inquiries can be addressed to B.G. Marine, 740 Anskar Court, Coquitlam, BC V3J7V2, phone (604) 936-2160.
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