Garmin GPS 120XL - Manual (Page 14)

Getting Started Tour
Now that your GPS receiver has been initialized and
you are familiar with the primary pages, it’s time to take
a tour. This is a live tour and is to be conducted with
your unit installed and with the boat in the water. The
tour will take you through the receiver’s basic features
and functions as you move about on the water and
assumes that the GPS 120XL is turned on, initialized,
and that you have not changed any of the factory set-
tings (units of measure, selectable fields, etc.). If these
settings have been changed, the pictures and descrip-
tions in this manual may not match what you see on
your screen.
Navigation Simulator
If you are not able to take the Getting Started Tour
with your boat in the water, you may use the built-in
navigation simulator to practice using the GPS 120XL.
To use the simulator, see page 54.
Marking a Waypoint
To begin the tour, let’s take the position you have
acquired (either by just initializing the unit or by having
turned the unit on) and mark it as a waypoint for future
reference.
1. Press the
M
key to capture and hold your position.
To mark a position, you must have obtained a
2D or 3D fix, or have the receiver in simulator
mode. If you try to mark a position without a
position fix, you will be alerted with a ‘No GPS
Position’ message.
Marking A
Position
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The simulator mode will
allow you to practice navi-
gation and become familiar
with the GPS 120XL with-
out leaving your slip.
To save a waypoint with the
default three-digit name,
simply press the MARK key
followed by the ENTER key.
The GPS 120XL will then
return to the page previous-
ly displayed.
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