Etrex Vista Route Navigation question

From: Tim Pentreath (timpentreath_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/24/04 

Date: 24 Oct 2004 07:53:36 -0700

Hi

I have the old (non colour Vista) and have a question about route
navigation...

Is there an easy way of telling it to navigate to the next waypoint
when you've gone close to the previous waypoint, but not actually over
the top of it! For instance, this morning I navigated around a route
which I'd set up for a new cross country run. Even when I went within
100' of a waypoint it didn't switch to the next wp, it told me to head
back! Is there a setting to say how close you have to be to a wp
before it decides you've been there, or can you easily tell it to goto
the next one?

The only way I could do it was to do Main menu > Routes > My route >
select next wp > Review > Goto - somewhat cumbersome I'm sure you'll
agree!

Any help gratefully received.

Thanks

Tim Pentreath

Bath, UK

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