Samenvatting

In the Navigation Technology Department, a special interaction exists between scientific education and research on the one hand and skill based education on the other. The skill based education consists besides theoretical courses of a lot of practical courses. The NLDA can provide their students with some special training facilities. These include a Warfare Electronic Chart Display and Information System (WECDIS) trainer, a radar simulator, a training sailing vessel, a training vessel and a Full Mission Bridge Simulator (FMBS). Some of these facilities are used for research. The training vessel Van Kinsbergen is also used for research in manoeuvring behaviour. The FMBS Training Tools for Research is used for research as well. Most of the bridge simulator research is focused on the so called “non-technical skills” which are used in Crew Resource Management. An example is the dissertation by Letty Aarts. This dissertation focussed on the factors that influence the overview in a bridge environment. Recently, Lt Beemsterboer executed an experiment on the bridge simulator to measure Situation Awareness (SA) effects as part of his bachelor thesis. Lt. De Jonge is currently working on a bachelor paper that is based on the findings of Lt. Beemsterboer. The bridge simulator and the training vessel Van Kinsbergen are being used for this research. The advantages of using these training facilities for research are numer-ous. Students can use training facilities they are familiar with for theirscientific research. Using the facilities during normal training hours willnormally have little impact on the running training program. Results acquired by the research can be incorporated in the current training programsat very short notice.To give an impression of the research done with our training facilities,a summary of the bachelor paper of Lt. Beemsterboer follows.The thesis of Lt Beemsterboer focusses on SA on the bridge of a ship.The aim of this paper is to indicate the influence of the increasing numberof navigational means for the SA for the Officer of the Watch by means of an experiment.