Position Pinning

When you are standing still or moving at extremely slow speed, a GPS receiver can have trouble determining the direction you are traveling. In the past, this resulted in a "wandering" plot trail that moved around the map, even if you were standing still.

The Position Pinning feature was developed so that when you stopped, the unit locked the present position on the GPS plotter until you moved a short distance or exceeded a very slow speed.

The command remains available in the unit's software, but we recom- mend that you leave it in the default off (unchecked) mode. The "wan- dering" plot trail issue has now been corrected by the Track Smoothing feature. Turning on Position Pinning could actually result in an inaccu- rate plot trail if you are moving around in a relatively small area. If you want to experiment with Position Pinning, the same instructions are used to turn the feature on (checked) and off (unchecked.)

1.Press MENUMENUto GPS SETUPENTto POSITION PINNINGENT.

2.Press EXITEXIT to return to the previous page.

Reset Options

To reset all features to their factory defaults:

1.Press MENUMENUto SYSTEM SETUPENTto RESET OPTIONSENT

to YESENT.

NOTE:

Reset Options does not erase any waypoints, routes, icons or plot trails.

System Menu with Reset Options command selected.

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Eagle Electronics 500C manual Position Pinning, Reset Options