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Navman 5505 User Manual

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General submenu

Plotter mode

Normal: only scales available on the chart card can be displayed.
If you press

or

to select a chart scale which is not available, on the chart card,

the chart display will change to this scale but will only display the boat position and track (if
enabled). The rest of the display is white with black crosshatch lines and no chart information is
displayed. This is useful to zoom to a small scale to track small boat movements or if there is no
detailed chart for an area.

Anticlutter

Names and icons shown. Note: this is independent of the change in detail shown at

different zoom levels.

hides some less important names and icons to make the chart clearer.

Value added data

Non marine chart data shown

Projected course

The TRACKER can estimate the course after a given time, based on the current speed and heading
(see section 3-4). The options are 2 minutes, 10 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours or Off.

CDI scale

See Appendix C. The options are 0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 0.5, 1.0, 2.0, 4.0 and 10.0 distance units.

Lat/lon grid

displays a latitude and longitude grid.

Boundaries

Displays boundaries around areas where more detailed chart coverage is available:

Auto

shows the next four detail levels;

On shows all.

Text/icon size

Select the size of chart text and icons.

Water submenu

Water features

displays marine sediment labels (for example, M shows areas of mud) and tide station icons

Bathymetrics

Displays underwater depth contours between

Bath & sndgs min and max.

Spot soundings

Displays depth soundings between

Bath & sndgs min and max.

Bath & dndgs min

The minimum depth for

Bathymetrics and Spot soundings.

Bath & dndgs max

The maximum depth for

Bathymetrics and Spot soundings.

Tidal flow

displays dynamic tide flows: arrows on a chart showing the present tide stream and

orientation (requires a GPS fix and an NT-MAX card)

Other submenu

Waypoints

Displays waypoints:

Hide all only displays waypoints on any selected route;

Selected displays waypoints with their display option set to Icon or I+N (Icon and

Name) (see section 5).

Names

displays place names.

Lights

Displays lighthouses:

No sector hides any light sectors; On shows all data.

Nav-aids

Displays signals (fog, radar, radio stations) and bouys.

Int and US select the icon format;

Simpl draws simpler icons.

Attention areas

displays attention area boundaries and information icons

; attention areas are

important areas, such as restricted anchorages or shallow areas.

Land submenu

Land features

displays land features, for example regions, rivers, roads, railways, airports.

Land elevation

displays land contours, shaded like depths (requires an NT Max card)