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3.7.3 Off-Course Alarm

The Off-Course alarm can be used to

alert you when you are steering to a

specific waypoint destination if your

vessel strays too far away from your

intended track line to the selected way-

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point. This is particularly useful if you

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fectiveness.

To set the Off-Course alarm, press

theplkey.

Press the(OFF COURsEI

softkey.

Using the numeric keys, enter the desired distance that represents

the maximum margin that you would allow for being off course, then press

the/mikey

to set the alarm into operation.

Example:

Press 0, l,OjENTER[, for an XTE alarm of 0.1 run.

Whenever the XTE alarm is set and the XTE distance exceeds the alarm

value, the alarm will be activated, the audible beeper will sound and XTE

characters will appear on-screen in the alarm warning area.

Presdm[

silence the audio beeper.

The values set for the alarms will remain in memory until changed by the

operator. As mentioned earlier, you can set the arrival alarm or the anchor

alarm, but not both. The alarms can be set to OFF anytime by accessing the

desired alarm in menu and entering

“0”

as the alarm value.

3.8 Man-overboard Mode

This important feature is useful if, while underway, something or someone

falls overboard. Press

thelE[key

. This puts the NAV unit into the special

MOB display mode and a series of special operations begin.

The MOB display appears and shows the posi-

tion where the event occurred as waypoint #999.

Own ship and the MOB are joined by a dotted line

and constant readings of BRG and DTG are pro-

vided to the MOB position. The Plot scale is

automatically set to the 0.5nm scale for the opti-

mum view, although the scale can be set for the

amount of detail required for recovery.

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