OICNW-3-2A

Set up and maintain an ARPA display

Condition

On an operational ARPA that meet the standards of 33 CFR 164.38 (or an ARPA simulator that meets applicable national and international performance standards for ARPA).

Performance requirement

Behavior Standard
The student will: During assessment, the student shall, at a minimum:

Set up and maintain the ARPA display.

Within three minutes, the candidate:

  1. Turned the power on;
  2. Initialized performance monitor;
  3. Noted error messages;
  4. Switched from standby to on;
  5. Selected the appropriate scale;
  6. Adjusted the gain control so that targets and sea return appeared;
  7. Adjusted the tune control (if the unit is not self tuning);
  8. Adjusted the brilliance control;
  9. Adjust the sea clutter and rain clutter controls to suppress the rain and sea clutter without losing targets.
  10. Display selected is north up stabilized, relative motion.
  11. Select proper gyro course and speed input.
  12. Select sea stabilized mode.

Note: This assessment supports KUP OICNW-A3.4, and is assessed in MT-3222 Automatic Radar Plotting Aids (ARPA).