Waypoints Screen - NorthStar 961 Reference Manual

Chapter 6 - Creating Waypoints
Creating a new
waypoint at the

waypoints screen

(entering
coordinates)
Page 6-12
If you use the default waypoint name, this type of new waypoint is
automatically
*SAVED02*
, and so on. The word
waypoint, and the number increases by one each time you save this
type of waypoint. The saved waypoints' numbering reverts back to
*SAVED00*
when you reach the limit you set using the
WPTS
function at the
SAVEDXX*
many *
automatically recycled, press the
SETUP
screen, then press the
limit, the old waypoint with this same name will be overwritten. (This
wrap-around feature keeps the waypoint list from getting filled with
SAVEDXX*
* waypoints.) If the old waypoint was in the trip or in a
route, its coordinates will be kept there as an unnamed waypoint.
If you marked a specific route on the
SAVE
keypresses and then press the
automatically saved in this route (the timed
dialog box automatically disappears after nine seconds unless you
press any menu key). With this feature, you can save a sequence of
waypoints in a route—with only one keypress for each new
waypoint. As long as the
you can press the
route, rather than waiting for the nine-second countdown.
To add a new waypoint at the WAYPOINTS screen:
1. At the WAYPOINTS screen, press the NEW WAYPT key.
A blank line is created just above the currently selected
waypoint, and the flashing cursor goes to the NAME field.
Your present position, if known, is already inserted into
the LATITUDE and LONGITUDE fields (or GRI, TD#1 and
TD#2, if displayed).
2. Use the KEYPAD to enter a name for the new waypoint,
which must be unique.
3. Press the CURSOR PAD left or right to move to the other
fields—SYMBOL, DISTANCE, BRG, and LATITUDE and
LONGITUDE or GRI, TD#1 and TD#2, using the KEYPAD
to change the values. Enter coordinates as either distance
and bearing from your present position, or else as latitude
NOTE:
named sequentially,
DISPLAY SETUP
waypoints are retained before they're
STAR
DISPLAY SETUP
NOTE:
VESSEL POSITION
SAVE
key again and again to save points in the
961/962 Operations and Reference Manual, Rev. A
*SAVED01*
such as
SAVED
designates a saved
screen (to choose how
key until you reach the
key). At this
ROUTES
screen to accept
SAVE
key, the point is
VESSEL POSITION
dialog box is up,
,
SAVE