FishC (C-Map Charts)

Last born inside the Professional line and specially designed for the fishermen, FishC has been developed on the experience of more than 200 FISH packages already sold and following suggestions from deep-sea fishermen.
FishC supports C-MAP NT+/PC, C-MAP NT+ (drive C-CARD USB that allow using plotter cartdridge too) cartography.
User interface has been completely redrawn in order to make much more easier and friendly the use of the package. All the essential navigation functions can be quickly accessed selecting the relevant buttons on the tool bar.

Two lines, one horizontal and one vertical, indicate the mouse cursor position on the chart.

The menu bar, as well as the scroll bars can be hidden, thus leaving a bigger screen area for displaying the chart.

Managing routes and tracks is now simple and comprehensive: user can set a new route even when navigating, starting from the current route. The Go To function allows to create a quick route with a simple click of the mouse on the chart displayed.

Real time vessel position is displayed on the screen and the track can be overlaid on the chart with different colours representing different values of trawling speed and depth.

Speed and depth can be also viewed as graph-plots which can be superimposed to the main FishC screen.

Use can enter fishing areas (with different shapes) and associate names, colours and alarm conditions to each of them.

Storing markers now is as easy as clicking a keyboard key as the user can associate each single function key of the computer to a different type of event.

User can set up to four targets and FishC will display real time range and bearing from the vessel position on a floating panel.

The heading vector is now displayed with a line - separated from the one indicating the C.O.G. - whose length is adjusted according to the speed of the vessel.

The software can manage up to 20 serial ports, merging together data coming from different instruments; for each communication port, user can select the set of data he wants to read as well as the data he wants to send to external instruments such as autopilots.

Vocal messages - user defined - can be associated to any data when setting an alarm condition.

Main features:

System requirements (minimum):

• IBM compatible PC
  
• Pentium III processor (or equivalent)
  
• 512 Mbytes RAM
  
• 50 Mbytes of hard disk space (depending on charts number and format)
  
• SVGA (or higher resolution) graphic board, mouse (Microsoft® compatible)
  
• Windows® XP operating system (or above)
  Input/Output management:
  
• input: up to 20 serial ports (merge mode)
  
• output: up to 20 serial ports
  
• Connectivity: NMEA 0183
  Charting formats:
  
• vector charts C-MAP® NT+.
  Tracks/Routes:
  
• unlimited storage capacity (depending on hard disk size)
  
• full editing feature (name, colour, description, user defined autozoom scale for each single leg)
  
• unlimited number of waypoints
  
• waypoints full editing feature (name, description)
  
• route information (single leg range and bearing, total distance and ETA calculation)
  
• Great Circle and Rhumble Line calculation
  
• reversible route option
  
• user defined filtering criteria for easy to handle track selection
  
• Cross Track Error calculation and display
  
• automatic vessel position tracking with user defined time and distance step
  
• Move/Copy route option
  
• autopilot control via NMEA0183 and control panel
  
• vessel track can be displayed with different colours accordino to trawl speed or deepth
  
• user defined filtering criteria for easy selection
  
• Import/Export options
  Markers:
  
• unlimited storage capacity (depending on hard disk size)
  
• full editing feature (name, shape, colour, zone, description)
  
• "Go To Marker" option
  
• user defined filtering criteria for easy to handle marker selection
  
• proximity alarms
  
• user defined max display scale
  
• Import/Export options
  On board instruments management:
  
• numerical readouts for any variable available from instrument system
  
• user defined alarms for any variable available from instrument system
  
• information display
  
• main graphical information can be customised with user-defined colours and filtering criteria
  
• virtual keyboard
  
• multilanguage (Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Danish, Greek)
  Other features:
  
• management of areas (with different shapes) and associate names, colours and alarm conditions to each of them
  
• dead reckoning facility
  
• "goto" option
  
• find zonas, markers, routes function
  
• user defined vessel position
  
• setting magnetic variation, overshooot radius, depth offset, time zone
  
• Man Over Board
  
• NMEA simulator
  
• ARPA NMEA interface included with ARPA target display and collision course indication
  Price: 960,00€