Fully Online Small Craft Radar Course. Complete your training and achieve your course completion certification today. Ideal for skippers, boat owners, crew boat masters and yacht masters.
Online Radar Course from MECO will enable you to:
- Learn Radar skills and technical knowledge to exceed the requirements for RYA Yachtmaster.
- Understand the differences between cutting edge 'Broadband' radar and standard 'Pulsed' radar.
- Develop and practice core Yachtmaster radar skills such as systematic observation, plotting, and horizon calculation.
- Utilise tools such as sea & rain clutter, gain, tuning, EBL's, VRMs, MARPA, ARPA, true and relative vectors.
- Build your knowledge from the most basic concepts to the finer technical points to form a thorough understanding.
Each section is broken down into the simplest of stages - you do not need any previous knowledge, or radar skill set
Course Curriculum
Introduction
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StartIntroduction
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StartRadar Brief Overview (1:06)
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StartRanges (pulsed Radar) (6:22)
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StartRanges (FMCW) (3:31)
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StartRange Discrimination (3:52)
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StartBearings & Bearing Discrimination (12:22)
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StartGain (2:19)
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StartSea Clutter (1:37)
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StartRain Clutter / FTC (4:08)
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StartSide Lobe Echos (4:50)
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StartRadar Horizon & Range (5:59)
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StartModes of Operation (5:03)
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StartSART's (2:44)
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StartRadar Target Enhancers (3:14)
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StartRacons (3:37)
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StartEBL / VRM / Cursor (3:05)
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StartRadar Plotting Sheet Instructions (2:06)
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StartP stage 1) Relative motion (Original - Actual) (O-A) (6:30)
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StartP stage 2) Our Motion (Own Way / O-W) (4:46)
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StartP stage 3) Their Motion (Way of Another) (W-A) (21:05)
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StartMARPA / ARPA (5:51)
Course content:
- How to avoid the common, dangerous radar blunders that lead to radar assisted collision.
- How to correctly use EBLs & VRMs to ascertain risk of collision and plot positions.
- Refining the picture, FTC, Rain, Sea, IR, Main Bang Suppression, and more.
- Modes of operation and the hardware limitations.
- About the limitations of bearing and range discrimination.
- About Radar Horizon, how to calculate this, and take this into account when using the radar.
- How to use your Radar to fix a position if the GNSS fails.
- The limitations of the different technology, broadband is not always best.
- Traditional (Commerical ship) Radar Plotting to fully understand how automation works.
- How to assess risk of collision and CPA
- How to accurately calculate the aspect of a target, its course and speed.
- A thorough understanding of True vectors and Relative vectors.
- How other electronics can interact with your radar - SARTS, RTE's, & Racons.
Who is this course for?
- Yacht Skippers and crew
- Commercial Boatmasters
- Boat owners
- Yachtmaster Instructors
Course information
- Fully self paced and on demand, log in and out whenever suits you
- Full support is provided within the course content or via email
- All lessons are prerecorded with full screen animations
- Note taking is possible within the video lessons
- Progress quizzes ensure you're on the right track as you work through the course
- Course written and supported by RYA / MCA qualified and highly experienced yachtmaster instructors who are also RYA Radar Instructors
- 30 day satisfaction guarantee.