Tristan Darwin Project
GPS Training - Garmin Etrex
3. COMPASS SCREEN
The main part of this screen shows a repre-
sentation of a compass. In normal use this
will act like a compass showing your direc-
tion of travel (see note on previous page
about its limitations). When used to navigate
to a particular waypoint or to follow a route
or track, an arrow will show you which way
you should be going. When used like this it
will also tell you how far it is to go and how
long it will take to get there at your current
speed.
There is a lot of additional information avail-
able at the foot of this screen. This includes:
Location, Current Speed, Max Speed,
Heading, Trip Time, Distance Covered,
Sunrise, Sunset etc. You can cycle through
these using the UP/DOWN buttons.
The ENTER button shows a menu
where you can reset the trip time
and max speed as well as stop
navigating to a waypoint or route
(STOP NAVIGATION).
Pressing the UP/DOWN but -
tons will change which informa -
tion is shown at the foot of the
screen eg Location and Speed
as shown here
Here the arrow shows that you
need to travel South to get to
waypoint ‘G1330A’ which is
currently 4.88 miles away as
the crow flies.
No time is shown for how long
it will take to get there ( ‘--.-- TO
GO’) because the unit isn’t
moving, ie our current speed is
0 mph.
Press the ENTER button to
reset max speed or to stop nav -
igating to Waypoint ‘G1330A’.
