Restarting The Track Line - NorthStar 972 Quickstart Manual And Reference Manual

Restarting the track line

When travelling from one waypoint to
another, you may find you've gone off
your planned track line. Maybe you
avoided an obstacle or drifted slightly
off-course. Whenever you're off-track, you
can get back by one of two methods:
To restart your track line from your
present position, press Restart and
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after passing the obstacle, you can steer
•
your vessel back to the original track
line by using the cross-track error
display, and simply continue to the
waypoint (Track 1 in Figure 2)
after passing the obstacle, if you don't
•
need to return to your original track
line, you can go directly to the next
waypoint by using the 972's restart
function (Track 2 in Figure 2)
Figure 2: Restarting the course line
Restart is found on the
vessel mode only) and on the
The 972 calculates a new track line from
your present position directly to the next
waypoint, and resets your cross-track error
to zero.
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