Furuno NAVPILOT-500 Marine Instruments User Manual


 
3. STEERING MODE
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3.3.4 Selecting the boat’s steering behavior after arriving at your
destination waypoint
The “Fishing mode” can be enabled and set up control your boat’s steering
behavior after it reaches the last waypoint in a route. For example, the ORBIT
setting will steer the vessel in a circular pattern around the final waypoint (fishing
spot). The FIGURE EIGHT setting will continually return to the final waypoint in a
eight figure pattern.
For details of each movement, see the next section “3.4 TURN Mode”. To enable
the Fishing mode and set the steering behavior, complete the following steps:
1. Press the [STBY] and [MENU] keys in order to show the STBY menu.
2. Rotate the course control knob to select “PARAMETER SETUP”, and then
press the course control knob to show the parameter setup menu.
3. Rotate the course control knob to select “ NEXT PAGE”, and then press
the course control knob to show the second page.
4. Rotate the course control knob to select “FISH MODE”, and then press the
course control knob.
5. Rotate the course control knob to select ORBIT TO STBD (starboard),
ORBIT TO PORT or FIGURE EIGHT.
To disable the fishing mode, select OFF. (The ship continues in the same
direction that was active when the boat arrives at the last waypoint.)
6. Press the course control knob, and then press the [MENU] key twice to close
the menu.