Eagle Electronics 500C manual

Speed instead. Closing Speed is also known as velocity made good. It's the speed that you're making toward the waypoint. For instructions, see the Customize Page Displays entry in Sec. 5.)

Track is the heading, or the current direction you are actually travel- ing. Bearing is the direction of a line-of-sight from your present position to the destination. No matter what direction you are steering, the Bear- ing window shows the compass direction straight to the destination from your location at the moment. Distance shows how far it is to the waypoint you're navigating toward.

The Off Course window shows the current cross track error. This shows the distance you are off-course to the side of the desired course line. The course line is an imaginary line drawn from your position when you started navigating to the destination waypoint. The course line is shown on the Navigation Page screen (and the Map Page screen) as a dotted line.

Course line	Heading arrow
Left cross track error line
		Waypoint
		symbol
		Bearing
		arrow
Trail line		Cross track
		error range
		(off course
Navigation		indicator)
information		Destination
displays
in data boxes		name
Current track or heading,		Compass bearing
		to destination
shown in degrees

Navigation Page, going to a waypoint while creating a new trail.

The cross track error range is shown on the compass rose as a wide, white, corridor enclosing the course line. The outer edges of this white corridor represent lines that show the current cross track error range. The default for the cross track error range is 0.20 miles.

For example, if the present position symbol touches the right cross track error line, then you are 0.20 miles to the right of the desired

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