Editing A Route - NorthStar 6000i Quickstart Manual And Reference Manual

Editing a route

You can make changes to a route graphi-
cally using the
change it using a list of its waypoints.
Reference section 4 — Creating waypoints and routes
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Editing a route

Routes screen — saving a route
3. As you pass the location of each desired
waypoint, press SAVE/MOB .
The vessel's location will be saved as a
waypoint, and the waypoint will automati-
cally be added to the route being saved.
The waypoint is stored with a name simi-
lar to (0001) . The parentheses indicate
that the waypoint was automatically
named, and the four-digit number
uniquely identifies each waypoint. Each
CHART screen or you can
waypoint is also given a description with
the time and date you stored the way-
point.
NOTE:
While you're automatically saving a route,
you can also access all of the unit's navi-
gation functions (except you can't edit
the route you're presently saving).
To check whether you're still saving a
route, press WAYPTS/ROUTES , then
Routes
to display the
ROUTES
you're still saving a route, the message
"saving to route:" is displayed at the bot-
tom of the screen.
If the route becomes full (35 waypoints),
you may want to stop saving to this route
and start a second one.
To stop saving a route:
1. Press WAYPTS/ROUTES , then press
Routes .
Stop save and
2. Press ENTER twice.
You can make any of the following
changes:
• change the route name
screen. If
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