Chapter 10 - Waypoint and Route NavigationPage 10-2 961/962 Operations and Reference Manual, Rev. ASteering to a waypointThe STEER and 3-D STEER screens help you steer preciselyalong a course line to your active waypoint. Both screensdisplay—using large digits that you can read from adistance—the following information:• name of the active waypoint (if any)• distance and bearing from your present position to theactive waypoint• speed-over-ground (SOG) and course-over-ground (COG)• estimated time of arrival (ETA) and estimated timeenroute (ETE)• numerical and graphical XTEIn addition, the 3D STEER screen, using a panoramicperspective view, graphically displays your vessel in relation tonearby waypoints, as well as avoidance points. Both screenshelp guide you precisely along a course line; for example,following a harbor channel, or a line between shoals andsandbars, to an active waypoint. You can choose whicheverscreen you prefer.Of course, you can always access the information listed aboveon the CHART-screen INFO BARs.On the 3D STEER screen (but not on the STEER screen), youcan press the IN and OUT keys to zoom in and out on thedisplay. Pressing the IN key lets you look at a smaller area;pressing the OUT key lets you look at a larger area.
