System overview and the User interface
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System overview and the User interface
Introduction
This section gives an overview of your H6 System and its features and includes
details of the User interface, its controls and how information is displayed.
System overview and features
H6 is a fully integrated system that is able to provide all of your boat’s navigation,
entertainment and non-safety communications requirements. It is based around
two marine computers: one for navigation and one for entertainment. In the case
of failure of the navigation computer, the entertainment computer is able to serve
as an online spare so that you can get home safely.
Navigation system
H6 is a ‘command environment’ with a command center on every helm. Each
command center has two high resolution, sunlight viewable, waterproof liquid
crystal display (LCD) monitors and a trackball to control the system.
Its fundamental principle is that the helmsman should choose the layout of the
helm instruments and not the boat builder. Following naturally from that, the
helmsman should be able to have only the instruments displayed that he or she
requires for a particular operation.
The operating system makes it easy to access data, set up, view and change the
displays. You simply set the data you want to view as a virtual analog instrument,
an alpha-numeric display or a trend graph depending upon the type of display you
find easiest to understand.
To make its operation intuitive, system operation is similar to that of a Windows
PC environment. If the user can use applications such as Word or Excel, then much
of the remainder of this manual will seem very familiar.
The navigation system is designed for ease of use and incorporates the following
features:
Easy marine navigation
H6 takes the guesswork out of marine navigation by enabling easy and accurate
planning and plotting of simple or complex routes. These routes can be stored and
reused, even changed while in use to take into consideration changing weather
conditions or other local factors.
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