Garmin GPS III A Owner's Manual

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The Position Page shows you where you are, what direction you’re heading, andhow fast you’re going—and it’s the page you’ll want to use when you don’t have adestination selected.A graphic compass display at the top of the page shows your direction of travel(track) while you’re moving, while six user-selectable data fields below display yourcurrent speed, average speed, trip odometer, trip timer, and sunrise/sunset times atyour current position. “User-selectable” means you can change them to display otherinformation. We’ll cover these fields more in the reference section.Below the user-selectable data fields are additional data fields to display yourcurrent position, along with current time and date. The current position readout canbe in latitude/longitude, UTM/UPS, Maidenhead or one of several regional grids.Current time and date can be in local time or UTC (Coordinated Universal Time).Position Page showing UTMcoordinates for use withUSGS topographic maps, etc.The trip odometer, trip timerand average speed readingscan all be reset from the ‘TripComputer’ option on the MainMenu. See page 66.9GETTING STARTEDPosition PagePosition PageTrack Compass Trip OdometerCurrent Timeand DateCurrent PositionCoordinates