Creating Avoidance-Area Waypoints - NorthStar 972 Quickstart Manual And Reference Manual

Creating avoidance-area waypoints

Reference section 5 — Creating waypoints and routes
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Creating avoidance-area waypoints

Add waypoint
4. Press
coordinates and display the New Waypoint
screen.
You can make avoidance areas from new or
existing waypoints. Then, if you travel into
a designated avoidance area, the 972 will
sound a beep and flash an alarm on the
screen.
The 972 displays an avoidance area on the
screen as a waypoint surrounded by a
Chart
circle. The circle is the avoidance area's
warning radius, which you set when you
create or edit the waypoint. You can use
the international "slashed circle" no-entry
symbol as the avoidance point's symbol to
help you quickly see it on the chart.
The waypoint is treated as an avoidance
point only if you specify a warning radius
larger than zero. In other words, just
assigning the slashed circle symbol to a
waypoint doesn't cause the 972 to treat that
waypoint as an avoidance point.
5. Now follow the instructions above for entering
to capture the cursor
a waypoint numerically, starting with Step 4.
The coordinates of the cursor (Step 6) will be
already entered — don't change them unless
you mean to.
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