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traveling in a straight line. Once you deviate from a straight line, the
unit "drops" a plot point (trail waypoint) onto the trail. This conserves
plot trail points. If a plot trail uses all of the available points allotted to
it, the beginning points are taken away and placed at the end of the trail.

Trail Options menu.

Press

↓ to

U

PDATE

C

RITERIA

|

ENT

|press

↓ or ↑ to select criteria type|

ENT

.

Trail Update Rate (Time, Distance)
You can update a trail by time, with a range from 1 second to 9999 sec-
onds; the default is 3 seconds. You can update by distance, with a range
from 0.01 miles/nm/km to 9.99 miles/nm/km; the default is 0.10 miles.

With Update Criteria selected, press

↓ to either the rate or distance

data entry boxes and press

ENT

. Press

↑ or ↓ to change the first charac-

ter, then press

→ to the next character and repeat until the entry is

correct. Press

EXIT

|

EXIT

to return to the Trail Options Menu.

Trail Options menu.

Specific Trail Options

New Trail
To manually start a new trail or delete a trail: From the Trail Options
Menu, press

→ to

N

EW

T

RAIL

|

ENT

. The trail menu appears as seen below: