Lowrance electronic 5300c User Manual

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Navigation Page, recording a trail, traveling southwest. Page looks

like this when the unit is not navigating to a waypoint, following

a route, or backtracking a trail.

When navigating to a waypoint, the Navigation screen looks like the

following figure. Your ground speed, track, distance and bearing to

waypoint, and course are all shown digitally on this screen.
NOTE:

Remember, when the Speed, Track and Position information dis-

plays are flashing, satellite lock has not been achieved and no posi-

tion fix has been determined. A question mark will also flash on the

present position arrow in the center of the compass rose.

Speed (ground speed) is the velocity you are making over the ground.

(If you wish, you can customize the Speed data box to display Closing

Speed instead. Closing Speed is also known as velocity made good. It's

the speed that you're making toward the waypoint. For instructions,

see the Customize Page Displays entry in Sec. 5.)
Track is the heading, or the current direction you are actually travel-

ing. Bearing is the direction of a line-of-sight from your present posi-

tion to the destination. No matter what direction you are steering, the

Bearing data box shows the compass direction straight to the destina-

tion from your location at the moment. Distance shows how far it is to

the waypoint you're navigating toward.
The Off Course window shows the current cross track error. This shows

the distance you are off-course to the side of the desired course line. The

course line is an imaginary line drawn from your position when you

started navigating to the destination waypoint. The course line is shown

on the Navigation Page screen (and the Map Page screen) as a dotted line.

Compass

rose

Navigation
information
displays in
customizable
data boxes

Present

position

arrow

Trail line

Track or compass heading indicator, showing direction of travel