AntennaPilot

Marine passage planning

RoutePilot: passage planning on board and ashore

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Plan the passage on the bridge, simulate the whole voyage in the office, and present it to guests with live position, weather, photos and video.

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Real screens of the real application with fictional data: MV Nova Explorer, Ushuaia to the Antarctic Peninsula. Click the buttons on the screen.

Route tab with the 43-waypoint route from Ushuaia and the sea state card Waypoint 5 expanded with name, position, leg speed and marker settings Route tab with the Great Circle toggle switched on Chart with the wind overlay and wind legend Chart with the significant wave height overlay Chart with the swell overlay Chart with the air temperature overlay Weather timeline moved to plus 24 hours with the projected vessel position Presentation tab with two saved screens and playback controls Presentation mode, full screen chart titled WIND Presentation mode, second screen titled WAVES Route report table with positions, leg distances, speeds and ETA in UTC and local time Export Route dialog with RZV, GPX, CSV, KML and RTZ formats Insert License Key dialog with a fictional fingerprint Built-in user guide Settings, Vessel page with GPS USB, NMEA TCP and manual position Settings, Meteo Provider page Search City tab with port search, port pins and favourites Chart with the sea state card collapsed
Click the buttons on the screen

Route tab: route length and duration, saved routes, waypoints with ETA, live NMEA position and the sea state card on the right.

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Weather overlays and route report Wind, waves and swell overlays on the route, then the route report. Recorded from the real interface.

All screens are real captures of the application running with fictional vessel, device and user data. No real customer data is shown.

What it is

Passage planning and monitoring in one window

RoutePilot is a Windows application for planning and monitoring ocean passages, designed for expedition and cruise vessels. In the same interface you build the route, see the weather matched to the ETA at every waypoint, follow the vessel live over NMEA and check real sea state data.

RoutePilot chart with a planned route, waypoints and ETA
Route planning on the chart, with ETA and leg distance for every waypoint.

Main features

From chart to approved plan

  • You click waypoints on the chart and RoutePilot calculates the great-circle distance of every leg. Routes are saved and reopened in seconds.
  • Set the departure time and speed, and RoutePilot gives the arrival time at every waypoint in ship’s local time and in UTC.
  • Wind, waves, swell, sea temperature and visibility are forecast for the moment you arrive at each waypoint.
  • The sea state panel gives wave height, swell period and direction, wind and gusts and pressure for each waypoint.
  • With a TCP or USB connection to the ship’s NMEA 0183 source, the ship icon moves on the chart and the ETAs update live.
  • The voyage report lists all waypoints, ETAs, leg distances and time zones. You can print it or save it as PDF.
RoutePilot sea state card
Sea state card.
RoutePilot NMEA connection panel
NMEA connection over TCP or USB.

How it works

The order you would follow on the bridge

  1. Build the route: click waypoints on the chart, then set speed and departure time.
  2. Fetch the weather. One click pulls the forecast for every waypoint, matched to its ETA.
  3. Connect NMEA by entering the IP and port of the NMEA multiplexer, and follow the ship live.
  4. Check the weather and ETAs, then save the route or export it to ECDIS.
RoutePilot weather overlay along the planned route
Weather overlay along the route.

Onboard displays

Presentation mode for expedition teams: position, weather, photos and video

Turn the route into a passenger display: live chart, route, ETA and weather, mixed with photos and videos of the next destinations, on a lounge screen or as a channel on the ship’s IPTV. See all presentation features. For a permanent live position channel on every cabin TV, running on its own onboard server, see Wakeline.

RoutePilot presentation mode on a lounge screen
Presentation mode with route, weather and ETA.

Requirements

System requirements

Operating systemWindows 10 / 11 (64-bit)
RuntimeIncluded
Browser engineMicrosoft Edge WebView2 (auto-installed if missing)
RAM4 GB minimum, 8 GB recommended
Storage200 MB for application; cache grows with tile use
NetworkInternet for weather API and map tiles; LAN for NMEA
NMEA sourceTCP/IP NMEA 0183 multiplexer (optional)
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