Station location. An example is displayed above.

When you zoom in to a sufficiently small zoom range, the icon itself be- comes an animated arrow showing tidal current velocity and direction for the selected tidal station at the present time. At larger zoom ranges, you can select the boxed "C" icon and it becomes an animated arrow with a pop-up name box. An example is displayed in the following figure.

To view Tidal Current information:

1.Use the arrow keys to move the cursor over a Tidal Current Station icon. When selected, a pop-up name box appears.

Pop-up name box

Tidal Current Station icon in animated mode

Cursor lines

Navionics chart showing Tidal Current Station icon selected by cur- sor. In this example, the current is flowing to the west at 0.2 kn.

2. Press WPT to display the Tidal Current Information screen.

Current Information screen.

The Tidal Current Information screen displays daily tidal current data for this station on this date at the present time. The graph at the top of 155

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Eagle Electronics 500C manual To view Tidal Current information