At 09:15 AM 9/5/2000 -0700, Dan Hagen wrote: he pointer on the compass page is a course-correction pointer--it shows the discrepancy between your heading (actual direction of travel, or "track" angle to use Garmin's nomenclature), and the bearing to the waypoint. For example, if you are holding a 30-degree ferry angle and this is the correct ferry angle to take you to your I am not familiar with the Garmin units, but on the Magellan units I have (ColorTrak and the Map 330X (New and not on dealer shelf yet) they provide "CTS" = Course To Steer. This is the corrected course for drift, etc. to take you to your destination vs. the direct bearing from your current position. Another area that should be considered when following the GPS Compass Rose is: * It only works when you are moving above xx mph/kph speed * It can be set to True North or Magnetic North If you set it to "Magnetic North" does it correct for Magnetic Variation automatically or just show magnetic headings like your compass that must be corrected for Declination and Variation. Interesting, I will do some more research on the last item. Fred California Kayaker *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Sep 07 2000 - 19:44:59 PDT
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