RYA Radar Course

Service Description

The RYA RADAR course is a one-day course aimed at students who require an understanding of radar as an aid to navigation and collision avoidance. The International Regulations for the Prevention of Collisions at Sea state that if you have a radar on board your vessel, you must know how to use it. Radar is a versatile electronic navigation aids, but the best results are only obtained when you know how to use all the functions correctly. It is not an all seeing eye, and can easily mislead those who do not understand its controls, allow for its limitations, or interpret its picture. Course topics include: switching on a radar and how the radar set works how radar adjustments and features affect the way radar works target definition radar reflectors types of radar display radar plotting the use of radar in navigation and collision avoidance