The marine radar simulator developed by TRANSAS can simulate a number of ports along Strait of Malacca, Singapore, Strait of Dover, the United Kingdom, and waters off New York Harbor, the USA; and 11 types of vessels with different tonnages, including container ship, oil tanker, bulk carrier, yacht, and passenger ship. It is also equipped with one genuine radar for training. It can simulate a variety of navigation conditions to help crew or trainees better understand radar operations and anti-collision operations using radar.
IMO stressed the importance of use of simulators in training in several parts of Standards of Training, Certification and Watch keeping for Seafarers (STCW 78/95). The navigation simulator in MTC provides a 1:4 simulation space, and can simulate navigation of four ships in the same waters at the same time, and allows operations in different waters. Therefore, the navigation simulator can be used as a basis for maritime training and evaluation. It is also called Multi Function Cubic (MFC) due to its 1:4 multi-function simulation capacity.
The simulator was accepted at MSTC, NKUST on May 23, 2003 and was certified according to the Standard for Certification of Maritime Simulator System. It meets the standards on navigation simulators, and can fully simulate various onboard operation environment during navigation including radar operations; therefore, the simulator is applied to radar training at operation level.
