Not a fan of the PPA bridge; but because of the OOW situation. OOW should be up and walking around and in no way inhibited from doing that. He or she should be, out on the wings to check astern etc without depending on electronics; the human eye and brain will pick up things even the best electronics won’t.
CIC is where the command decisions are made and that can have the synthetic environment; bridge is where maneuvering and navigation is managed and you should not be seated, or worrying about anything other than the safety of maneuvering and navigation, when doing that. And the electronic aids to navigation should be cross checked from time to time, not totally relied on. That means getting up and using the pelorus and wing repeats amongst other things.
An aside on flag bins - yes they are always located adjacent to the bridge and not for any reason of emergency access. Flags in warships (and indeed, all ships if more so on warships) are in constant use. Apart from the statutory times when they must be displayed (entering and leaving harbour etc) much warship maneuvering when in company is done by flags, and that means they need to be readily accessible to those on the bridge. Even when using a radio to pass maneuvering instructions, it is done by nominating the flags concerned - so something like “Immediate execute corpen nine tack one eight. Golf desig alpha six. Stand by execute. Break. Execute to follow formation foxtrot”. That sort of thing.
CIC is where the command decisions are made and that can have the synthetic environment; bridge is where maneuvering and navigation is managed and you should not be seated, or worrying about anything other than the safety of maneuvering and navigation, when doing that. And the electronic aids to navigation should be cross checked from time to time, not totally relied on. That means getting up and using the pelorus and wing repeats amongst other things.
An aside on flag bins - yes they are always located adjacent to the bridge and not for any reason of emergency access. Flags in warships (and indeed, all ships if more so on warships) are in constant use. Apart from the statutory times when they must be displayed (entering and leaving harbour etc) much warship maneuvering when in company is done by flags, and that means they need to be readily accessible to those on the bridge. Even when using a radio to pass maneuvering instructions, it is done by nominating the flags concerned - so something like “Immediate execute corpen nine tack one eight. Golf desig alpha six. Stand by execute. Break. Execute to follow formation foxtrot”. That sort of thing.
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