Garmin GPS III Pilot - Manual (Page 32)

Imagine you’ve just departed. Your home airport is thirty minutes behind you.
You fly over a nice fishing lake or golf course you’ve never noticed before and decide
you would like to return to this place in your car. How would you mark this spot?
The GPS III Pilot’s ENTER/MARK key provides a simple way to mark your present
position and save it as a waypoint.
To mark your present position:
1. Press and hold the ENTER/MARK key. The mark position page will appear, with a
default three-digit name for the new waypoint in the upper-left portion of the page.
2. Let’s call this location ‘SIMUL8’. To change the name, highlight the waypoint name
field (at the top of the page) and press ENTER. Use the rocker keypad to enter the
new name — UP/DOWN to change the first character (‘S’), RIGHT to move to the next
character (‘I’), and repeat. Press and hold UP or DOWN to cycle through the charac-
ters more quickly. Once the new name is spelled out, press ENTER to accept it.
3. Now let’s use a special symbol to identify the location. Highlight the waypoint symbol
field (immediately right of the name field) and press ENTER. Use UP/DOWN on the
rocker keypad to select the ‘Information’ icon (‘?’) and press ENTER.
4. To save the new waypoint, highlight ‘DONE’ with the rocker keypad and press ENTER.
Press and hold the ENTER/
MARK key to save your
present position as a user
waypoint.
User waypoints can be
assigned a custom symbol,
making it easy to identify the
waypoint on the Map Page.
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SIMULATOR TOUR
Marking Present Position
Waypoint Name
Field
Position
Coordinates
Waypoint
Symbol Field
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