The Waypoint data window

As explained in the previous paragraph, when the first Waypoint is plotted, the Waypoint data window is displayed in the lower left-hand corner of the screen.

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This can be moved like other palettetes by clicking its title bar and sliding the cursor.

It can be hidden by clicking the closing box located in the title bar.

Display it again by selecting Waypoint Data from the Utilities menu.

The Waypoint data display indicates and continuously updates information necessary to follow the course correctly:

ð Course: the heading to follow to directly reach the next Waypoint from your present position,

ð Initial: the initial heading, the theoretical heading that you should follow from the previous Waypoint,

ð XTE: the ãcross track errorä indicates how far you are off course from the theoretical heading (initial heading),

ð Distance: the distance to the next Waypoint,

ð TTG: the Time To Go to reach the next Waypoint depending on the present speed of the ship,

ð Next: the next heading to follow after passing the Waypoint.

Click the box in the upper right-hand corner of the title bar of the Waypoint data display to open the graphical zone of the display.

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You can close this graphical zone by clicking the box once again.

Note: the software automatically detects the moment when the ship is close enough to the Waypoint. It then automatically passes to the next Waypoint in the list. A course is thus followed by the software without manual intervention (if the helmsman follows the indications supplied by the software).

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You can select, in General preferences from the Utilities menu, the automatic passage distance (see chapter Software configuration). On the large scale charts (precise) you can thus see the distance realized by a circle (of equal radius for the precision chosen) traced all around the waypoint to be reached.

Caution!
Monitoring of the vessel for safety must be continually provided. The user must ensure that the course is perfectly safe.