Blue Force Tracking
Other vessels that are equipped with STEDS compatible AIS hardware, such as the AIS5000 are displayed onscreen using Blue Force AIS target icons.
The following icons are used:
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Blue Force vessel |
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Blue Force SAR |
The Blue Force icons are used as long as:
your MFD has a matching First responder passphrase.
you have received a SITREP from them within the last 6 minutes.
their AIS mode is not set to Receive only.
If the above conditions are not met then the target icon will revert to using the standard, Green AIS target icon.