Chapter 10: Waypoint And Route Navigation; Steering To A Waypoint - NorthStar 961 Reference Manual

Chapter 10 - Waypoint and Route Navigation

Steering to a waypoint

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The STEER and 3-D STEER screens help you steer precisely
along a course line to your active waypoint. Both screens
display—using large digits that you can read from a
distance—the following information:
• name of the active waypoint (if any)
• distance and bearing from your present position to the
active waypoint
• speed-over-ground (SOG) and course-over-ground (COG)
• estimated time of arrival (ETA) and estimated time
enroute (ETE)
• numerical and graphical XTE
In addition, the 3D STEER screen, using a panoramic
perspective view, graphically displays your vessel in relation to
nearby waypoints, as well as avoidance points. Both screens
help guide you precisely along a course line; for example,
following a harbor channel, or a line between shoals and
sandbars, to an active waypoint. You can choose whichever
screen you prefer.
Of course, you can always access the information listed above
on the CHART-screen INFO BARs.
On the 3D STEER screen (but not on the STEER screen), you
can press the IN and OUT keys to zoom in and out on the
display. Pressing the IN key lets you look at a smaller area;
pressing the OUT key lets you look at a larger area.
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