Instructor Station Suite

Product information

Nautis Instructor Station Suite is a collection of software programs which can be used in combination with Nautis Trainee Station software. It provides simulation instructors with a set of tools to enable full control of scenarios, vessels, environments and exercises.

The Nautis Instructor Station Suite features:

• Exercise Manager, which is used to both create and control exercises.
• Object Editor, which has subparts for modifying the ship hydrodynamics characteristics, the placement of navigation and morse lights, mooring points, navigation and ship control instruments, flag lines, and the lay-out of the conning screen.
• ChartData Editor, to add and change buoy locations and characteristics on the charts of the simulation environments
• Ocean Editor ocean wave characteristics

These tools are explained in more detail in the product specification document.

With the Exercise Manager component of the Nautis Instructor Station Suite, the instructor can carry out the following tasks:

• Prepare an exercise. Select a training environment, and add one or more vessels in it, using the easy drag-and-drop interface. Set the weather conditions and time of the day. Save the exercise for later use, or start straight away.
• Create a complex track and add target vessels or helicopters to it
• The Nautis Instructor Station Suite has both a 3D bird's eye view of the environment and a 2D chart view. The instructor can easily move to any location, and take the viewpoint of any of the vessels.
• Initiate the exercise. The Start Exercise action automatically starts a multi-user server, so one or more trainees can log into the exercise.
• Assign trainees that are logged into the exercise to one of the vessels
• Start, pause, record or stop the exercise.

During an exercise, the instructor can perform the following actions:

• Change the weather, visibility and time of day
• Show a trail of all the ship movements
• Shift any of the vessels to a different position
• Add new target vessels, and set their speed and direction, or add them to a complex track
• Change the track of the AI vessels or helicopters

By also running a Nautis Trainee Station on an additional screen on the same PC, the instructor can assume the role of another vessel or helicopter, interacting with the trainee. He can assign himself to different vessels during the course of an exercise. For example:

• A tugboat, in a mooring or unmooring exercise
• A ship in distress, during a rescue exercise
• A replenishment vessel, during a replenishment at sea exercise
• A helicopter, in a helicopter landing or rescue operations exercise

For additional information about the Nautis Instructor Station Suite, contact us.