So I was wondering if the GPS can do more as what we can do on a map

Ah yes, the wonderful Garmin manuals - one of their more successful
customer interfaces that they don't even bother to improve. Well done
Garmin!! Another success in dealing with the average joe.

No kidding ... its one of the "useful" kind which describes functions
by how to activate them in the menu (duh) but does not waste time
explaining what exactly it does and how it works .... who would want to
knwo that ?




Well, according to the manual, which I just downloaded, it either does
it through setting Waypoints and creating a Route, or it doesn't do it
that way at all, but by using the "highway" setting.

I can't make heads or tales out of the manual without having a 276c in
front of me to experiment with.

Well ... its too cold to use the boat for a real life test ... I tested
this CDI in simulator mode .... but that only works so well and doesnt
simulate a cross current ...

What it does with NO cross current is, it steers you back to the direct
line from start to target IF you follow the little CDI icon .... hard
to say what it will do with cross current ...

Matt

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No kidding ... its one of the "useful" kind which describes functions
by how to activate them in the menu (duh) but does not waste time
explaining what exactly it does and how it works .... who would want to
knwo that ?

I've had a Garmin 48 handheld for several years, and that unit will display
a "highway" page and tell me the crosstrack error. Its then a simple
matter to manually compensate your heading to offset the drift and/or
recover the original track, and the display continues to show your position
relative to the originally calculated track line.

When dealing with these manuals, it is well to remember that their aim is to
instruct on the operation of the unit, not to teach navigation.