Maritime contact management system and methods are provided which, when integrated with a ship's navigational RADAR and Global Positioning System, accurately and dynamically calculates ownship course and speed, tracks contacts, and maintains an active and historical database while algorithmically calculating and digitally displaying multiple contacts to include at a minimum, the contacts' track number, name, identification, class type, courses, speeds, target angles, closest points of approach, and geopositional data to include all relevant latitudes and longitudes. As a collision avoidance system it uses methods to calculate ownship required courses and speeds as well as time to arrive at the user-selected points in order to either open or close a contact as well as calculates true wind direction and speed as well as desired relative wind direction and speed envelopes in support of flight operations. Additionally, the system has a training mode for to support graphic user interface computer based training and a playback mode for historical reconstruction of ownship and contact maneuvering.