Garmin GPS III Owner's Manual

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Route navigation allows you to manually create a sequence of intermediate way-points which lead you to your final destination. The GPS III Pilot will store up to 20reversible routes, with up to 30 waypoints in each route. Routes can be created andmodified by text entry—using the rocker keypad to enter waypoint names. All of theGPS III Pilot’s route functions are accessed through a ‘Routes’ option on the Main Menu.To create a new route:1. Press MENU twice to display the Main Menu.2. Highlight ‘Routes’ and press ENTER. The Route List is displayed, showing all routesstored in memory.3. Press MENU to display the Route Options.4. Highlight ‘New Route’ and press ENTER. The GPS III Pilot creates a route called‘Empty-XX’. (The name changes as you add waypoints to the route, so make note ofthe route name for future reference.)5. Highlight the first waypoint name field and press ENTER to begin entering the name ofan existing waypoint in memory.6. Use the rocker keypad to enter the name of the route waypoint and press ENTER.7. Highlight the next waypoint name field, press ENTER and repeat step 6 until all routewaypoints have been added to the route.Route ListThe GPS III Pilot’s Route List displays all the routes currently stored in memory,along with a descriptive name for each route. Once a route has been created, it can beactivated and used for navigation from the Route List. A route may be followed in thesame sequence as it was originally created, or you can invert the route and navigatefrom the end waypoint back to the beginning waypoint.To display the Route List,showing all routes stored inmemory, select ‘Routes’ fromthe Main Menu.Select ‘New Route’ from theRoute Options and enter theidentifiers for the route way-points in the sequence youwish to follow them.66REFERENCERoutes