Garmin GPS III Owner's Manual

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Imagine you’ve just departed. Your home airport is thirty minutes behind you.You fly over a nice fishing lake or golf course you’ve never noticed before and decideyou would like to return to this place in your car. How would you mark this spot?The GPS III Pilot’s ENTER/MARK key provides a simple way to mark your presentposition and save it as a waypoint.To mark your present position:1. Press and hold the ENTER/MARK key. The mark position page will appear, with adefault three-digit name for the new waypoint in the upper-left portion of the page.2. Let’s call this location ‘SIMUL8’. To change the name, highlight the waypoint namefield (at the top of the page) and press ENTER. Use the rocker keypad to enter thenew name — UP/DOWN to change the first character (‘S’), RIGHT to move to the nextcharacter (‘I’), and repeat. Press and hold UP or DOWN to cycle through the charac-ters more quickly. Once the new name is spelled out, press ENTER to accept it.3. Now let’s use a special symbol to identify the location. Highlight the waypoint symbolfield (immediately right of the name field) and press ENTER. Use UP/DOWN on therocker keypad to select the ‘Information’ icon (‘?’) and press ENTER.4. To save the new waypoint, highlight ‘DONE’ with the rocker keypad and press ENTER.Press and hold the ENTER/MARK key to save yourpresent position as a userwaypoint.User waypoints can beassigned a custom symbol,making it easy to identify thewaypoint on the Map Page.24SIMULATOR TOURMarking Present PositionWaypoint NameFieldPositionCoordinatesWaypointSymbol Field