3. PLOTTER OPERATION
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3.1.3 Highway display
The highway display, shown in combination displays, provides a graphic
presentation of ship’s track along intended course. It is useful for monitoring
ship’s progress toward a waypoint. The own ship marker shows the relation
between ship and intended course. The XTE monitor shows the direction and
amount your vessel is off course – the arrow shows the direction to steer to
return to your course and the numeric the distance you are off course. Using the
figure below as an example, you would steer right 0.009 nm to return to course.
To maintain course, steer the vessel so the own ship marker stays aligned with
the intended course line.
Time-to-go
to destination
Range to destination waypoint
Estimated time of
arrival at destination
Destination
waypoint
XTE monitor
XTE range
0.9 nm
WPT001
WPT001
0D 9H 59MTTG 23th23:59ETA
SOG
10.0
kt 10.0 ktSTW
RNG 99.9 nm
0.009nm
0.9 nm
Intended course
Speed over ground,
speed through water
Destination
waypoint
Direction to steer
(green)
Own ship marker
Shown (in red) when
direction to steer
is "left."
Highway display
Soft keys
You can show the soft keys for the highway display by pressing the
[HIDE/SHOW] key.
HIWAY CNTRL: On the radar/plotter/compass combination display you can
switch control to the highway display by pressing the CNTRL soft key to show
HIWAY.
EDIT XT-LMT: Sets the range for XTE monitor scale. See the procedure on the
previous page for how to set.
RESET XTE: This soft key may be operated to restart navigation, when a
destination is set. Press the EDIT XT-LMT soft key followed by the RESET XTE
soft key. See the previous page for details.