How To Use The Optimize Page - Furuno FMD-3200 Operator's Manual

9. ROUTES
9.4.3

How to use the Optimize page

After all waypoints are inserted and you have made safe water calculation, you can
optimize your route, on the [Optimize] page. If not chosen, then optimization will be
done automatically with max. speed. If you want do optimization with a specific strat-
egy, see section 9.8 for how to optimize a route.
Check Status: Checked
Type: Select optimization strategy: maximum speed, time table, maximum profit, or
minimum cost.
Set ETD: Set date, time and waypoint to start from.
Parameters: Set the parameters for optimization, speed limit and income (max profit).
Edit Cost Parameters button: Enter fuel consumption figures. See section 21.3.
Set ETA: For the type [Time table], set the date and time that you want to arrive at the
waypoint selected.
Optimized Speed/ETA: The optimized speed for the date and time entered at [Set
ETA] appears here, after clicking the [Calculate] button.
Clear All: Clear all ETD dates entered at [Set ETD].
Calculate button: Click to calculate optimization.
Apply to Route button: Apply the calculations on the [Optimize] page to the route.
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