28 S1 Wheel and Tiller Pilots Operating Guide
• if the way point name has more tha n nine charac ters, the disp lay only shows
the fir st nine ch aracters .
2.4 Alarms
T he SmartPilot may ac tivate the alarms list ed on the following pages. When
displa ying an alarm the sou nder will beeping and the display will show the
appro priate alarm message.
Responding to alarms
• Unless otherwise stated, you should deal with alarms by pressing
standby
to
clear the alarm and return to hand steerin g.
• In some situ ations, the autopilot will raise more than one alarm. Wh en you
have dealt with the first al arm, the autopilot will display the next alarm.
Message Description and p ossible actions
LARGE XTE
Large cross track error
Activated when the cro ss t rack erro r exceeds 0 .3 nm . T he alarm
clears if the heading recovers .
MOB
Man OverBoa rd alarm
The SmartPilo t activates the Man Overboard alarm if it receives a
man overboar d (MOB) message from another instrument on the
SeaT alk system . It dis plays t he text M OB inst ead of t he waypoi nt
number fo r the X TE, DTW and BTW d ata pages .
If the autopilot is in T rack mode , it will sound the W aypoint
Advance alarm to not ify you of the change in waypoint.
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