| Tug, Mooring and Inland Operations The Transas tug operator trainer provides users with excellent tools for both ship assisting training tasks and professional training in tug and boat barge operations, including: . Escorting . Mooring and docking . Towing by the stern . Pushing ahead . Operating 'on the hip' . Operating with notch barges . Making and breaking a tow It is possible to use tugs as own ships handled by the bridge team, or as target ships handled by the instructor manually or in the semiautomatic mode. Practically all types of tugboats are simulated, including conventional single-screw tugs, conventional twin-screw tugs, cycloid-drive (Voith-Schneider) tractor tugs and Z-drive reverse tractor drive. Interface to real tug controls can be provided. Sailing in Ice Conditions Ice conditions can be set by the instructor in any sailing area included in the boat simulator. The Ice Navigation module developed jointly with the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute allows training in the crew procedures used when: . Mooring to Single Point Mooring (SPM) . Proceeding in broken ice . Proceeding along the solid ice edge, bumping against the edge . Proceeding in open pack ice, in ice holes and in patches of ice-free water . Following the icebreaker (training in watch service procedures for maintaining the place in the convoy, maintaining communication between the ship, icebreaker and other ships in convoy) . Proceeding along the channel in a convoy . Using radar information while sailing in ice conditions . Using the ice chart in the ECDIS The accurate modelling of the ship-ice interaction (such as hy-drodynamic interaction with the ice surface, specially within the ice field; hull friction with the edge of the ice field, and bumping into the ice field), high quality visualization of various ice surface types, nocturnal conditions, visibility effects and reflections, eni the maximum realism and training efficiency. |