TRANSAS NAVIGATIONAL SIMULATORS

Transas Navigational Simulators

Configuration
Transas offers a full range of Navi-Trainer navigational simulators designed to meet the
needs of the modern marine industry, covering the following levels of training:
• Full mission simulators for final training and certification, in which all elements of sim-
ulated equipment, modules and trainee participation are brought together to form a
complete interactive simulated environment
• Multi-task training classes for group interactive exercises under instructor supervision,
dedicated to specific training and certification
• Computer-based training for individual in-house or distance training, equipment fa-
Navigational simulator Navi-Trainer Professional 4000
miliarisation, refresher programmes, self-test/examination programmes and knowl-
(NTPRO 4000) enables simulator training and certifica-
edge assessment
tion of watch officers, chief officers, captains and pilots
serving on commercial and fishing ships with the gross
tonnage ­of 500 tons and more. This complies with re-
quirements of IMO STCW 78/95 Convention and Model
Courses 7.01, 7.03 as well as number of specific tasks be-
yond the Convention.
NTPRO 4000 simulator is compliant with
‘Class A, (B, C) NAV’ as per Det Norske Veritas classifica-
tion.

Training in STCW’95 and Beyond:

Conventional Training: Modular Structure
Ship handling training in accordance with NTPRO, with a modular structure of its own original soft-
STCW’95 requirements: ware, is easily adjusted for any possible configuration of
• Bridge Team Management workplaces within the training bridges.
• ARPA/Radar Service
• ECDIS A comprehensive range of services includes:
• AIS • Project design
• SSAS • Planning and cost-optimisation
Special Training: • Installation
• Training in tug and barge handling operations • Warranty service
• Training in offshore operations and using DP • After-warranty service and support
system • Instructor personnel training
• Ship handling training in ice conditions
• Training in Search and Rescue operations in ac-
cordance with IAMSAR manual
• Training in fishing operations
• Training for naval applications
• Vessel traffic management training in accor-
dance with IALA V 103 standard for the certifi-
cation and training of VTS personnel
• Research works for ship modelling, harbour
and fairways design
Open Architecture
The simulator is the optimum combination of
standard personal computers connected to the
local network with an assigned output to the ex-
ternal network.

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Conventional Training
Ship Handling Training
Listed below are navigator competency items related
to the operations on the navigation bridge, which can
be assessed by the Navi-Trainer Professional 4000 sim-
ulator:
• Plan and conduct a passage and determine position
• Maintain a safe navigational watch
• Use radar and ARPA to maintain safety of navigation
• Respond to emergencies
• Respond to a distress signal at sea
• Manoeuvre the ship
• Plan a voyage and conduct navigation
• Determine position and the accuracy of resultant
position fix by any means
• Determine and allow for compass errors
• Co-ordinate search and rescue operations
• Establish watchkeeping arrangements and proce-
dures
• Maintain safe navigation through the use of radar
and ARPA and modern navigation systems to assist
command decision-making
• Manoeuvre and handle a ship in all conditions
• Operate remote controls of propulsion plant and en-
gineering systems and services
ARPA/radar on full mission bridge
ARPA/radar class
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Radar/ARPA Training
Navigational simulators in any configuration allow training in
modern radar and ARPA operation skills. For this purpose, both
computer imitators and actual radar displays connected to the
simulator can be used.
Transas can create radar scenes of any water area in the world at
the customer’s request. The simulators use an accurate math-
ematical model of radar signal propagation, which enhances
the sense of reality and training efficiency.
During the development of this product we were guided by in-
ternational standards, the major guideline being STCW’95. By
the end of the courses the trainees will be able to perform all
the required tasks:
• Radar observation and plotting techniques
• Collision avoidance based on IMO-defined regulations and
alarms
• Situational awareness including determining target ranges,
bearings, courses, and speeds;
• Carrying out target-related calculations, such as CPA, TPA,
course and speed changes
• Setting up and maintaining ARPA/radar displays
Capabilities
• Imitates displays of the following radar types: Bridge Master II,
Bridge Master E, Furuno FR2100, Nucleus 6000
• Real ARPA/radar units can be incorporated using Transas Radar Imi-
tator Board
• The instructor radar/ARPA allows the instructor to see the current
radar situation in any point of the gaming area, and from any ship
involved in the exercise
• Ensures full ARPA functionality in the simulation mode with the ca-
pability to track up to 60 targets
• Real ARPA keyboard can be connected
• Provides trial manoeuvre operation mode
ECDIS Training
Navigational simulators use the Transas Navi-Sailor ECDIS, which is
one of the world’s most commonly used shipboard electronic chart
systems operating on thousands of ships. The Transas ECDIS holds
type approval certificates from the BSH, DNV and the Russian Mari-
time Register of Shipping. The real electronic chart system included
in the simulator allows familiarisation with all the details of electronic
chart operation, including route generation and editing, electronic
chart updating and principles of displaying various information.
By the End of the Courses the Trainees Will Be Able to:
• Operate ECDIS equipment
• Use the navigational functions of ECDIS
• Select and assess all relevant information and take proper action in
the case of a malfunction
• State the potential errors of displayed data and the usual errors of
interpretation
• Explain why ECDIS should not be relied upon as the sole trustwor-
thy navigational aid
Configuration
Transas ECDIS systems are offered in different configurations, from the
computer programs suitable for shipboard training to the simulators
which include real ship controls. Configurations may vary to suit indi-
vidual or group simulator training and the need for monitoring from
the instructor station.
The simulator ensures training which is fully compliant with the IMO
and STCW requirements and allows 24 people to be trained simulta-
neously in the same classroom.
Trainee operating ECDIS ECDIS class
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Ais Training
As per the requirements of the SOLAS Convention, all
ships of 300 gross tonnage and upwards must be fit-
ted out with AIS equipment.
Transas UAIS training ensures capability to:
• Set up parameters of own ships and targets for
UAIS Position, Ship Static and Voyage Related Data
reports
• Set up parameters of helicopter targets for UAIS
Standard SAR Aircraft Position reports
• Set up parameters of VTMS station for UAIS Base
Station reports
• Send UAIS messages from targets to own ships and
VTMS stations
• Monitor exchange of UAIS messages
• Enter malfunctions into a UAIS transponder
SSAS page view of the navaids task
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Bridge Team Management Training
Weakness in bridge organisation and management has been
cited as a major cause for marine casualties worldwide. Frequently,
accidents in operations are caused by resource management errors.
Bridge Team Management reduces the risk of marine casualties by
helping a ship’s bridge crew anticipate and correctly respond to
their ship’s changing situation. The simulator is designed to ensure
AIS and SSAS Training this kind of training in compliance with international standards.
Since the attacks in the USA in 2001, the approach to the is-
sues of transport security worldwide has changed, including
that
to maritime transport. This has been acknowledged nationally
and internationally and has prompted both new develop-
ment and the improvement of existing security regimes across the
transport systems.
These requirements took the form of amendments to the Con-
vention on the Safety of Life at Sea 1974 (SOLAS) and an Inter-
national Ship and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS Code).
Navi-Trainer Professional provides the ability to conduct AIS and
SSAS training compliant with the ISPS Code and other interna-
tional standards.
By the End of the Courses the Trainees Will Be Able to:
• Form bridge teams, making full use of all the competencies avail-
able and ensure that all members of the team are aware of their
duties and responsibilities
• Draft detailed passage plans and monitor the vessel’s progress to
maintain the plan
• Recognise the threat potential of a situation and make decisions
which maintain the safety of the vessel
• Support and monitor a pilot
• Recognise the need to make contingency plans in areas of high
risk
UAIS page view of the navaids task • Recognise the development of an error chain, and effectively break
such a chain
SSAS Training • Interpret and make efficient use of a ship’s manoeuvring data
Aсcording to the requirements of the SOLAS Convention, all
ships of 500 gross tonnage and upwards must be fitted out with
AIS equipment not later than 30 June 2006. Thus, SSAS training is
intended for improving safety and efficiency of navigation in the
open sea and coastal waters through the automatic exchange
of navigational, statistic and voyage information between the
ships and coastal stations.
SSAS Satamatics SAT-101 is imitated as part of the Navaids Task in
the Navi-Trainer Professional 4000. Connection of the HW SSAS
alert buttons is available as an option.
SSAS supports the following modes:
• Switching on
• Stand-by
• Alert mode
• Test mode
• Alert reset
• Switching off
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Tug bridge in Pacific Maritime Institute
On-chart control of mooring lines and automatic tugs
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Offshore and Dynamic Positioning System Operator Training
In order to provide the DPS training in compliance with the Nau-
tical Institute standards and IMO DP Class 2 requirements and
equivalent class notations, Navi-Trainer Professional provides in-
tegration with the IVCS 2002 DPS produced by Navis Company.
DPS control modes and functions include:
Special Training • Joystick modes with manual or automatic heading control
• Dynamic positioning modes with manual heading, automatic
Tug, Mooring and Inland Operations heading or split axis manual/automatic control
The Transas tug operator trainer provides users with excellent • Autopilot mode with FFU steering knob for direct rudder con-
tools for both ship assisting training tasks and professional train- trol
ing in tug and barge operations, including:
• Track Control modes for low and high speeds with automatic
• Escorting or manual course keeping and for following the route (track)
• Mooring and docking described by a set of waypoints
• Towing by the stern • ROV follow mode with manual or automatic heading control
and watch circle
• Pushing ahead
• DGPS sensor blending provides accurate and stable operation
• Operating ‘on the hip’
• Variable centre of rotation
• Operating with notch barges
• Automatic wind compensation
• Making and breaking a tow
Fishing Gear Handling Training
It is possible to use tugs as own ships handled by the bridge
team, or as target ships handled by the instructor manually or in Transas fishing bridge module is intended for training navigators
the semiautomatic mode. in the safe ship handling and control of fishing gear in various
fishing conditions, including on the surface and under water.
Practically all types of tugboats are simulated, including con-
ventional single-screw tugs, conventional twin-screw tugs, The fishing bridge module also enables complete training in all as-
cycloid-drive (Voith-Schneider) tractor tugs and Z-drive reverse pects of classic navigation. The use of highly realistic models of the
tractor drive. Interface to real tug controls can be provided. ships, ship equipment, fishing gear and fish finding devices gives im-
proved trawling and seine-net fishing tactics.
Sailing in Ice Conditions
The Fishing Bridge module provides fishing vessel personnel with
Ice conditions can be set by the instructor in any sailing area in- training in:
cluded in the simulator. The Ice Navigation module developed
• Safe manoeuvering in the setting of fish gear
jointly with the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute allows
training in the crew procedures used when: • Search and detection of fish shoals
• Mooring to Single Point Mooring (SPM) • Adjustment of fishing gear
Fishing gear adjustment panel -trawl
• Proceeding in broken ice • Fishing gear handling while catching in fish shoals
• Proceeding along the solid ice edge, bumping against the
edge
• Proceeding in open pack ice, in ice holes and in patches of Net sounder Echo sounder Radar
ice-free water
Underwater trawl
• Following the icebreaker (training in watch service proce- Sonar Conning visualization
dures for maintaining the place in the convoy, maintaining
communication between the ship, icebreaker and other
ships in convoy)
• Proceeding along the channel in a convoy
• Using radar information while sailing in ice conditions
• Using the ice chart in the ECDIS
The accurate modelling of the ship-ice interaction (such as hy-
drodynamic interaction with the ice surface, specially within the
ice field; hull friction with the edge of the ice field, and bumping
into the ice field), high quality visualization of various ice surface
types, nocturnal conditions, visibility effects and reflections, en-
sure the maximum realism and training efficiency.
Fishing gear adjustment panel - purse seine
Fishing bridge
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Underway replenishment
Naval Applications
Transas navigational simulators have a number of naval applications,
which allow training in the following operations:
• Fleet Formation Management
• Underway replenishment
• Lifeboat boat operations
• Deck helicopter operations
The fact that Transas simulators use the Navi-Sailor 3000 electronic chart
system, the first one in the world to have been adapted to naval needs, is
of particular importance.
Special operations simulators have found extensive applications both in
naval schools and at Coast Guard naval bases in many countries.
SAR Operations
Transas simulators enable the full scope training in search and rescue op-
erations as per the IAMSAR manual (edited jointly by the International Civil
Aviation Organisation and International Maritime Organisation).
Modelled modern types of rescue boats, helicopters, facilities for the
search and rescue at sea, combined with communications modelling, al-
low training in the use of these facilities and in the coordination of the
search and rescue operations in the most adverse weather conditions. The
synchronous recording and playback of the event, the use of equipment
and exchange on the air are the most effective means for collective train-
Line fleet formation ing in the rescue of human life at sea.
Davit operation Deck helicopter functionality
Vessel Traffic Management Training
VTS simulators are VTS operator workstations, from small local station to
the ramified up-to-date VTS systems with several integrated local and re-
gional stations for controlling radar, video, AIS surveillance systems, com-
munication, recording, database maintenance and documenting systems.
The simulator equipment and software allow all the main VTS functions to
be imitated and provide the creation of areas with different navigational
situations. The navigation bridge equipment enables the control of target
ships and generation of various training scenarios and tasks.
VTS simulators fully correspond to the functional capabilities of actual
Transas VTS systems operating on scores of ports worldwide.
VTS simulators can function in a common information environment with
Transas navigational and GMDSS simulators.
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Simulator Components
Instructor Station
The role of instructors in simulator training cannot be overestimated.
The instructor station incorporated in Transas simulators provides the in-
structor with all the necessary tools for the efficient generation, editing,
managing and assessing of training exercises.
Capabilities:
• Integrated application for creating, editing, explaining the trainee mis-
sion, exercise fulfilment and debriefing
• High accuracy data presentation on the basis of vector charts (able to
automatically load all the charts referring to the selected gaming area)
• Multi-lingual user interface (English, Russian, Japanese)
• Creation of exercises and automatic competency assessment scenarios
• Control of simulator session(s)
• Continuous automatic recording of data in the course of the exercise
(main, audio and video log files)
• Real, slow and fast time modes
• Able to display a track in the form of a succession of contours (Track
mode) and to set the track prediction mode (Trend mode) for all the
exercise objects (Global settings) and for one object (Local settings)
• Weather conditions manager
Transas Evaluation and Assessment System (TEAS)
Transas has designed a system that makes assessment automatic and easy.
The Transas Evaluation and Assessment System (TEAS) allows objective as-
sessment of an exercise fulfilled by a trainee on a navigational simulator.
It is possible to compare individual exercise fulfilment scores with other
exercise results. Results can be averaged with other runs or with the results
of other trainees.
Visualization
The visualization system allows simulation of the environment such as wa-
ter surface, rough sea, coastline, aids to navigation, moving surface and
airborne craft, coastal objects and structures. The system provides a real-
istic display of any weather conditions, various atmospheric phenomena,
time of the day, visibility and illumination effects, reflection and glare on
the water. Grading and report panels
The visualization shows all the stages of mooring, towing and search and
rescue operations, making the simulator an exclusively efficient means of
training in specialist areas of seamanship.
Sun glare on the water Before the storm Moving clouds
Thunderstorm Snow flurry Icebreaker in the channel
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Auxiliary Object Library
When creating an exercise,
the instructor can add a
number of auxiliary ob-
jects in the selected sailing
area, placing them at his/
her own discretion. Such
Acoustic Effects objects include different
types of buildings, vehi-
Ship sound and noise subsystem The system creates an acoustic environment corresponding to the cles, oil derricks and tanks.
sailing conditions. It imitates the noise of the wind, engine opera- The instructor can define
tion depending on the speed, noise of the anchor line, and noises of depth zones, add targets
the own ship and target ships (such as whistle, gong, bell). and own ships, and define
Simulated and Real Navigation Equipment all necessary weather con-
ditions.
• Indispensable for ‘hands-on’ full mission shiphandling and Bridge
Team exercises Models of structures

• Transas, customer or third-party equipment can be connected to Sailing Area Library

the simulator Transas navigational simulators incorporate one of the largest sailing area libraries in the
• On-screen controls replicating or simulating real ship control world covering practically all the important shipping areas, straits, and ports of call, as well
External noise subsystem
equipment as extensive sections of inland waterways. At customer request, the company can
develop new areas for any part of the world. Special emphasis is laid on the cre-
• Actual customer controls can be simulated upon request
ation of river areas.
Stereo acoustic environment

Imitator of direction finder RT-500-M Rhotheta Elektronik GmbH Shanghai, bend of Huangpu river

Abu-Dhabi, buildings reflected in the water

San-Francisco Bridge - Oakland Bay

Objects and Areas Database Abu-Dhabi, mosques

Mathematical model of a fishing vessel
Ship Model Library
Transas navigational simulators incorporate an extensive library of
ship models, comprising vessels of different tonnage, dimension
and hull forms, including container ships, tankers, gas carriers, fish-
ing and passenger ships, ferries, special purpose naval and com-
mercial vessels.
Honolulu, passenger terminals
Mathematical models of ships and ship equipment, physical forces
and effects have been based on the results of research carried out
by the leading research centres of Russia, and comply with the
highest possible global standards.

St.Petersburg, ships passing along the Neva river in the period of white nights

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Database Editing Tools
Database Editor Model Wizard
The Model Wizard is a powerful tool intended for the
production and update of integrated databases for
simulators of the Navi-Trainer ver. 4000 family and
higher. It is also designed for the planning of con-
struction works at ports, research of depth model and
the modelling of navigational situations.
Editing Sailing Area
• Ensures prompt automatic construction of 3D surfaces, sub-
merged terrain and aids to navigation for a selected area
• Models can be created for any area in the world
• Automatic generation of the optimum presentation logic
• No 3D modelling skills are required by the operator
Simulation Training Integration Concept
In order to provide full-blown crew resource management training, Transas has devel-
oped and implemented an up-to-date simulation training integration concept. Bridge
operation, GMDSS, engine room, vessel traffic management and information system, oil
spill and crisis management, liquid cargo handling, crude oil terminal and flight simula-
tors can form one large training complex.
Each simulator shares a common interface for its configuration software, which is the
basis for the most flexible simulator suite available on the market today. This simplicity
of configuration allows:
• Ease of operation
• Improved use of available hardware resources
• The most efficient adjustment of operator stations
• Minimal requirements for training both technical and operator personnel
• Significant reduction in initial and ongoing training costs
In 2005 Transas provided the solution, where a number of integrated training systems
could be connected over the Internet to share common data and exchange actions and
commands. This solution provided the basis for the realisation of the GOFMEC project.

1. User selects an area on the chart and sets the coast- 3. The radar scene is created automatically from the chart data
line configuration (such as mooring walls and em- and terrain
bankments)

2. The polygonal terrain model is built automatically 4. The generated scene can be supplemented with 3D models
from the chart data (prototypes) from the Object Library and any cultural objects Simulation systems integration
created with the aid of the Model Wizard. Any illumination
effects can be set (such as any time of the day and night or Sample Layouts of Simulation Centres
weather conditions)
Editing a Model
The Motion Model Editor enables users to adjust principal parameters and properties of the motion model for
the ship, and provides internal examination for possible changes requested in editing, displaying an appropriate mes-
sage. Pictorial diagrams give an exact comparison between ship motion model features before and after editing.

1. Model Editor enables user to create model and ad- 2. User can create any geometry and assign visual logic and prop-
just its properties erties for a model or a 3D object
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