Coastmaster 3

Product Specification

An advanced but simple to use Navigation program for the the Psion Series 3 , written to take full advantage of the Series 3's capabilities. Menus give easy access to functions and "reactive dialogs" make the program particularly easy to use. Coastmaster 3 is designed for the yachtsman or professional navigator who needs to store very large numbers of waypoints and routes and make use of the many handy utilities that are built into Coastmaster 3. Coastmaster 3 is designed to complement our Sightmaster 3 Ocean Navigation program which offers full astronavigation and ocean navigation facilities.

COASTMASTER 3 Includes: 

• Non-volatile memory for system settings. 
• Interface with SightMaster 3 for data and waypoint files.
• Selectable number of decimal places for readouts.
• Local time offset. Courses true or magnetic (with variation input). 
• Mercator Sailing or Plane sailing (selected automatically) and computation of intermediate points along a rhumb line for plotting. 
• Automatic route calculation.

Real-Time DR facility.

• Computation of course made good (or to steer, or current). 
• ETA computation. 
• Multiple waypoint files (or routes) storage and recall with comprehensive edit and merge facilities.
• Metric & Imperial conversions. 
• Computation of true / apparent wind.
• Distance off by vertical sextant angle or angles on the bow. 
• Fuel consumption estimation. 
• Times of twilights & Sun meridian passage. 
• Altitude and bearing for the sun with built -in Sun almanac for the years 1583 to 2100.

Minimum System Requirements

Psion Series 3, 3a, 3c or 3mx Computer with 30 Kilobytes free internal disk space.

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