Navigational settings
Chart orientation
Several options are available for how the chart is rotated in the panel. You select the options
by right-clicking the chart orientation shortcut button.
• North-up: Displays the chart with north upward. Corresponds to the usual orientation of
nautical charts.
• Course-up: Displays the chart with the vessel’s course over ground directed upward. COG
is received from the active EPFS sensor.
• Head-up: Displays the chart with the vessel’s heading directed upward. Heading
information is received from a gyro compass or from a marine transmitting heading
device. If heading is not available, then the COG from active GPS is used.
• Track-up: Rotates the chart in the direction of the next waypoint when navigating a
route. If not navigating, the heading up orientation will be used until navigation is started
The north arrow in the top left corner of the panel shows the north orientation.
Navigational area
The Navigation area setting defines where your vessel is displayed in the chart view.
• Fixed position: Used for setting the position on the screen where you want to display
the vessel.
Press the Set position button to close the dialog and display the chart panel, allowing you
to manually select the preferred position for vessel. The display returns to displaying the
vessel in this position whenever you press the Vessel shortcut button
• Area: Used for manually defining the navigation area for true and relative motion.
In true motion the chart is redrawn with the vessel on the outer circle when the vessel
reaches the inner circle. In relative motion the vessel's position in the chart is on the outer
circle
Warning: The navigation area options must be used with care. The
manually selected vessel position and area must be set considering safe
navigation!
Keep best scale
When the Keep best scale option is selected, the system automatically displays the chart with
the largest scale available for the current position of the vessel.
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