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Reference – Garmin GPS 150 User Manual

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To copy a route:

1. Press

R

and rotate

O

, if necessary, to display the Route Catalog page.

2. Rotate

K

until the route you would like to copy TO is displayed. (The route must be empty.)

3. Press

C

and rotate

K

to display ‘copy?’. Press

E

.

4. Use

K

to select the route you would like to copy from. The origin/destination identifiers

will be displayed for your reference. Press

E

to copy the route.

The GPS 150 will also calculate the closest distance that a route will pass a waypoint.

This is helpful when creating a new waypoint on your route referenced to a NAVAID. See
page 46 for a diagram of the CPA function.

To calculate the closest point of approach (CPA) for any route:

1. Press

R

and rotate

O

, if necessary, to display the Route Catalog page.

2. Rotate

K

until the desired route is displayed.

3. Press

C

and rotate

K

to display ‘cpa?’. Press

E

.

4. Use

K

and

O

to enter the identifier of the waypoint from which the distance

will be calculated.

5. Press

E

and the bearing and distance of the waypoint to the closest point on the

route will be displayed. Press

E

to accept and insert into the route.

If the waypoint does not fall between the waypoints on the route, you will be

informed with a ‘Invald CPA wpt ____’ message. If the waypoint cannot be added to
memory, you will be informed with a ‘Wpt memory full’ message. If you attempt to insert
the CPA waypoint in a route that already contains 31 waypoints, you will be informed
with the message ‘Route is full’. The CPA waypoint will still be stored in the database.

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REFERENCE

Route Copying and

Closest Pt of Approach (CPA)

Section

3

Copying route 0 to route 5.

Entering the CPA waypoint identifier.

Calculating CPA for route 0.

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