@ N3lsoN
Yes, I agree with you on that, some areas will have may be longer times use for paper charts. But in general they will be abolished, once all ships have double ECDIS systems
and so on. That in some instances some will still have to rely on paper charts,, sure thing !!!!
We have now on my ship rough 1500 paper charts,,they will be gone then. As for the others, we will see. Of course it,s always the action to apply the knowledge the OOW,s have.
When I tell my young officers,,Man,,look out of the window,,they look at me like I live on another planet. Navigation is today purly done (99%) by ECDIS. Even charting a position into the paper chart on approaches to ports, If you don,t tell them, they will not do it.
The wrong interpretation and the faulty ECDIS maps is another story. In the beginning the ECDIS was hailed as the" super never a accident again " thing. Then the rude awakening came. Now it takes 5-10 years to train them. While Europeans/americans etc going nice back to school, making new ARPA/ECDIS etc etc,,90% of officers coming back from their home countires with colorfull certifications and when you ask them where they made them,, it,s on a high school,,very high on a mountain !!!