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Navigate a trail – Eagle Electronics Cuda 240 S/GPS User Manual

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Edit a Trail Name
To edit a trail name: press

MENU

|

MENU

|

↓ to

M

Y

T

RAILS

|

ENT

|

↓ to trail

name|

ENT|ENT

. Press

↑ or ↓ to change the first character, then press →

to the next character and repeat until the name is correct. Press

ENT

then

EXIT

|

EXIT

|

EXIT

|

EXIT

to return to the previous page display.

Tip:

You can quickly call up the Edit Trail menu by selecting a trail on
the plotter with the cursor. Simply move the cursor over a trail and
a pop-up box appears. Press

WPT

and the Edit Trail menu opens.

At left, trail selected with plotter cursor. The info box at the bottom of

the screen shows distance and bearing from current position to the

selected point on the trail. At right, the Edit Trail menu.

Navigate a Trail

There are three methods for following a trail: visual trailing, navigating
a trail (forward) and backtracking a trail (backward). Try each method
to see which you prefer.

Visual trailing is the simplest method. It uses only the Plotter Page and
requires no menu commands at all. The technique works the same if
you are running a trail forward (from start to end) or backward (from
end to start.) However, visual trailing provides no navigation informa-
tion during the trip, such as the time to your destination.

The other two methods provide a full range of navigation data and work
with both the Plotter Page and Navigation Page. The only difference be-