EU Inland WaterWays Boat Test app for iPhone and iPad

This App has been developed to allow budding boat captains to increase their seamanship skills at a glance on their phone and assist them in identifying; signage, buoyage, markings and visual day time & night time plus sound signals on rivers and inland waterways and navigable lakes.

The App contains a full set of questions and multi choice answers translated from the mandatory sport’s boat approved Driving License test from the ‘German Binnenschifffahrtsstraßen-Ordnung (BinSchStrO)’ which is the “Internal Shipping Routes Authority”
This is to allow the user to learn the required theory for sitting the sport’s motor boat inland waterways test which is the mandatory drivers license required to navigate IALA Area A inland and Mediterranean waters.

Each of the 4 sections which are accessible via the bottom tab bar give access to extensive graphically depicted images for: general; compulsory and explanatory signage; buoyage and inland waterway markings; visual signals for sound, day and night signals.

The first button for ‘General’ which is also the ‘Home page’ includes the Motor Boat License Test questions and answers in two sections and the General Info button which covers various basic information plus the access button to the developer’s web site www.popski.net.

The second button is for ‘Signage’ which includes two sub-sections called Compulsory and Explanatory. Compulsory are obligatory signage which are sub-sectioned into ‘Prohibitory’, ‘Mandatory’ and ‘Restrictive’. The scrollable tables show the image of the signage with a brief description. On pressing a specific line, the image is increased in size and the description becomes clearer and more complete to read. This applies to the entire app, that each of the scrollable tables can be magnified on pressing the specific line within the table. The Explanatory button leads to further buttons which show; ‘Recommendary’, ‘Informative’, ‘Auxiliary’ and ‘Berthing’ signage. All of these signs and their specific meanings are there to allow the budding captain to be clear on the rules and regulations that they must comply with and understand.

The third button covers the ‘Buoyage’ and river side or inland waterways ‘Markings’
Equally the scrollable information can be press and a new page opens with a larger image and a written explanation.

Finally, the fourth button marked ‘Signals’ open up another sub-section covering the basic ‘Sound’, ‘Day’ and ‘Night’ signals showing mandatory horn, flags and required visual lights on board a boat during day and night.

It is a lot of stuff but really it is a fairly complete library of information required to achieve taking and passing the Driver’s License Test for European and all IALA Area ‘A’ regions.