This is a bit of a departure from what I normally write here, but today I’m going to talk about our chartplotter, the Raymarine Axiom 2 Pro S 9″. Now, as a forewarning, this is going to be a pretty critical review but I’m not criticizing the software or hardware engineers who built this: the responsibility for the quality level lies solely on management and the bean-counters. They are the ones that determine product priorities and development budgets.

I call this a mini-review because it is not a comprehensive overview of all the software on the Axiom 2 Pro, but focused on what we use regularly and the issues I’ve noticed. With over two decades of experience as a software quality engineer, I’ve got a pretty good idea of why these issues occur in software, and usually a pretty keen eye for bugs and quality issues. Note that I have the latest version of the software installed and have continually kept the unit on the latest software version ever since installing it a year and a half ago.