NMEA 2000 (¹) is a standard for electronic communication network specifically designed for pleasure boats, according to an industry standard published by the National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA). It aNMEAto meet many needs, arising from the considerable increase of electronic devices onboard, the spread of computers and MFDs (²) with control and navigation application more sophisticated. He [...]
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iOS 5 can delete your Navionics charts without warning
Pleasant surprise in the ARC transatlantic 2011.
After transferring pictures from my camera to my iPad, for some reason the memory was saturated. I had yet to 9GB free and I have transferred the contents of an SD-Card 2GB. Mystery !
Still, after two or three system messages informing me of the next saturation, iOS 5 has simply deleted all my [...]
Navigation iPad : the integral solution
Avec Weather4D PRO et AxcessPoint, associated with an Iridium satellite phone, we now have a complete solution, reliable and low cost to receive, display and manage GRIB files in open seas with iPad.
iNavX and Navionics cartography also provide a complete navigation solution, supporting files transfers with Weather4D PRO : GRIB, routes, tracks, that allows simultaneous display in both applications.
These solutions, [...]
Galileo, here we go !
Just published, call number 20 th, my previous post about iPhone 4S new GPS chipset – to receive signals from the Russian GLONASS system – in which I inserted a skeptical comment about the future of Galileo, I find myself caught up in the news.
Not only the first two Galileo satellites were launched the following day 21 October successfully from Kourou, but more by the pitcher [...]
Anchor Alarm with iNavX
iNavX offers for a while an "anchor alarm" feature, currently available at the bottom of the application Home page.
This feature was frequently criticized as impractical. iNavX 3.3.0 rectifies the failure in an improvement that makes it particularly clever now fully operational.
The "Anchor Alarm" feature allows to set the radius of a drift circle, with an adjustment from 0,01 MN (19 meters) [...]
When Katia meets La Louise
Thierry Dubois and his crew, Jacques Vermeulen experimenting with the Iridium connection with its new MacBook Air, should not laugh at a time when I post this short note.
La Louise, conveying from Newfoundland to La Trinité, is in the making up of Hurricane Katia, ex-tropical cyclone, which must reach the shores of the British Isles the next night. According to the latest position and the estimated speed, [...]
iNavX and the "Man Overboard"
For a while Rich Ray was asked to add a feature button "Man overboard" in its applications. Recently, following a new application on the site macsailing.net, he justified his refusal by the following reasons :
Such a button would take up limited/valuable screen real-estate on every screen..
Such a button , with expected behavior, come in [...]
ADS-B, aviator's AIS
As I have already written, in the word "aeronautic" there is "nautic". It is no accident. So much so that for several years the world of aviation is developing a similar concept to the maritime AIS : ADS-B. I also would not be able to say which of the two is the first , it doesn't matter !
As the news about us is a little flat these days – normal [...]
Free ENC river charts for use with MacENC
As part of its policy to offer users a leak ever more efficient and safe, the public institution Waterways of France embarked on the production of electronic navigational charts on various domestic routes in its network. The first two : the link "Dunkirk-Escaut" and "Garonne" is published.
The big surprise, unique in the history of the French administration, is that these cards are [...]
AIS, the second maritime revolution after the GPS
AIS takes a growing place, for two or three years, in the concerns of leisure boaters. Several articles refer to it in this blog, as for equipment as for applications available for our Mac, iPad or iPhone.
Note to neophytes in this subject, or to confirm the knowledge of the most informed of you, it seemed useful to clarify what the AIS means, as has just [...]
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