BendixKing SKYMAP IIIC - Manual (Page 58)

DETAILED OPERATION
Viewing User Waypoints
Screen 8: User Waypoint Viewer Screen
Pressing FLIGHT PLAN in Main Menu, followed by USER WPTS, accesses this Screen.
When this Screen appears a cursor will be seen positioned over the WPT field. Use the
joystick to increment or decrement the user waypoint number. (Holding the joystick up or
down will increase the speed of these changes.) Alternatively the joystick can be used to
select a user waypoint alphabetically by name in a similar fashion by moving the cursor
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As each user waypoint is selected, the name, latitude, longitude, icon and position fields
are updated. Empty user waypoints will be shown with dashes in the latitude and longitude
fields and the default icon (see Screen 22A, Point Features Data Class Setup Screen, in
the Setup Screens Section of this Manual for details on setting up the default icon style).
As each user waypoint is selected, all stored flight plans are automatically checked to see
if that user waypoint is being used in any current flight plan. If the user waypoint is found
within any of the flight plans, the words [FPLN LINK] will be printed next to the user
waypoint number. It is necessary to think carefully before editing any user waypoint
marked FPLN LINK since any changes you make to the user waypoint may also affect
one or more of the programmed flight plans.
If a user waypoint marked FPLN LINK is selected for editing and the Name only is
changed, the new name will be copied over to the relevant parts of the flight plan list. If the
name is left the same and the Latitude and/or Longitude only is changed, the new
details will also be copied into the flight plan list. However, if the Name is changed, along
with either the Latitude or Longitude the user waypoint will be treated as completely
new and the details will not be copied to the flight plan list.
This would result in your being left with waypoints in your flight plans that do not exist as
user waypoints. This can be beneficial in some cases as it makes it possible to double the
number of user points in the system to 1000, but it is essential to understand this feature
thoroughly and to use it carefully.
Once a user waypoint has been selected, Key 2 gives access to the Manual User
Waypoint Editing facilities. Key 1 will return to the main Flight Planning Mode Cover
Screen. Key 3, NEW WPT shall invoke the Manual User waypoint editing with the next
available empty waypoint. NOTE: Key 3 is blank if the waypoint database is full. Key 5
Rev 9 Jul 2006 3-15 Skymap/Tracker IIIC Pilot's Guide