Garmin GPS III Pilot - Manual (Page 47)

To change a map setup feature:
1. Highlight ‘Map Setup’ and press ENTER.
2. To change map orientation, select the ‘Map’ tab (if not already selected) and press
ENTER. Highlight the ‘Orientation’ field and press ENTER. Select ‘North Up’ to fix the
top of the map display to a north heading. Select ‘Track Up’ to adjust the top of the
map display to your current track heading. Select ‘DTK Up’ to fix the top of the map
display to your desired course. Press ENTER to accept the selected option.
3. To enable/disable automatic zoom, select the ‘Map’ tab (if not already selected), high-
light the ‘Auto Zoom’ field and press ENTER. Select ‘On’ or ‘Off to enable or disable
automatic zoom. Press ENTER to accept the selected option. The automatic zoom fea-
ture will automatically adjust the map scale from 80 nm through each lower scale, stop-
ping at 800 ft as you approach your destination waypoint.
4. To enable/disable all land data or aviation data, select the ‘Map’ tab (if not already
selected) and press ENTER. Highlight the appropriate field and press ENTER. Select
‘On’ or ‘Off’ to enable or disable all land data. Press ENTER to accept selected option.
5. For airports, navaids, active route waypoints, user waypoints, state/provincial bound-
aries, rivers/lakes and cities: select the appropriate tab (per the chart on page 38) and
press ENTER. Highlight the zoom field for the desired feature and press ENTER. Select
the maximum scale at which the feature should appear on screen, or ‘Off’ to never dis-
play, and press ENTER. Highlight the text field for the desired feature and press ENTER.
Select the text size for the desired feature, or ‘None’ to disable text, and press ENTER.
6. For airspace boundaries, highways, roads, railroad lines, metro areas, track log data,
active route lines and lat/long grid: select the appropriate tab (per the chart on page
38) and press ENTER. Highlight the zoom field for the desired feature and press ENTER.
Select the maximum scale at which the feature should appear on screen, or select ‘Off’
to never display the feature. Press ENTER to accept the settings.
Select the ‘North Up’ option
to keep the top of the map
display fixed on North. ‘Track
Up’ will cause the map to
rotate so the top of the map is
the direction you’re heading.
The ‘Zoom’ setting allows you
to define the maximum scale
at which the feature will
appear. Once selected, that
feature will appear at the
selected scale and all lower
scale settings.
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Map Page Options
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