3. BEHAVIORAL REALISM Whensimulatingrealequipmentthebehaviourofsuchsimulated equipmentshouldbehaveasidenticalaspossibleastheoriginal. .1 Criticalfunctionalityshallbedocumented. Thesimulatedequipmentshouldresembleespeciallyimportant radio-technicalvariables,suchasbutnotlimitedto: VHFlineofsightcommunication — VHF/MF/HFpowerlimitation — .2 MFgroundwavepropagation — HFatmosphericpropagationandreflection — InmarsatLinkTestandlogon/offvarioussatellites — EGCtest — EPIRB/SART/PortVHF/Navtexfunctions. — Thesimulatedequipmentshouldresembleespeciallyimportant radio-technicalvariables,suchasbutnotlimitedto: .3 distancelimitations — VHFlineofsightcommunication — VHFwattagelimitation. — Itshallbepossibletousedifferentcommunicationsystemsat the .4 sametime. 4. OPERATING ENVIRONMENT Thecommunicationstationshallbeabletoreceiveandtransmit messagestothe“realworld”asvirtualisedbythesimulator(instructor .1 orotherlearner). Theinstructorshallbeabletopositionthelearnerin“real”positionall aroundtheworld. .2 Theinstructorshallbeabletointroducevariablebackgroundnoise, .3 relevanttothelocationandtimeofday,foreachfrequencyused.
3. BEHAVIORAL REALISM .1 Whensimulatingrealequipmentthebehaviourofsuchsimulated equipmentshouldbehaveasidenticalaspossibleastheoriginal. Criticalfunctionalityshallbedocumented. .2 Thesimulatedequipmentshouldresembleespeciallyimportant radio-technicalvariables,suchasbutnotlimitedto: — VHFlineofsightcommunication — VHF/MF/HFpowerlimitation — MFgroundwavepropagation — HFatmosphericpropagationandreflection — InmarsatLinkTestandlogon/offvarioussatellites — EGCtest — EPIRB/SART/PortVHF/Navtexfunctions. .3 Thesimulatedequipmentshouldresembleespeciallyimportant radio-technicalvariables,suchasbutnotlimitedto: — distancelimitations — VHFlineofsightcommunication — VHFwattagelimitation. .4 Itshallbepossibletousedifferentcommunicationsystemsat the sametime. 4. OPERATING ENVIRONMENT .1 Thecommunicationstationshallbeabletoreceiveandtransmit messagestothe“realworld”asvirtualisedbythesimulator(instructor orotherlearner). .2 Theinstructorshallbeabletopositionthelearnerin“real”positionall aroundtheworld. .3 Theinstructorshallbeabletointroducevariablebackgroundnoise, relevanttothelocationandtimeofday,foreachfrequencyused.