Lowrance electronic ifinder expedition c User Manual

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If you are at or near the start of the trail, the arrival alarm will go 

off as soon as navigation begins because of your proximity to the 

trail's first point. Press 

 to clear the alarm. 

6. Upon arrival at your destination, cancel navigation. Press 

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A route is a series of waypoints linked together in an ordered sequence, 

used to mark a course of travel. You can visualize a route as a string of 

beads. The beads represent waypoints and the string represents the 

course of travel connecting waypoint to waypoint. 
The course from one waypoint to the next is a leg. Routes are composed 

of one or more legs. The legs of all GPS routes are based on straight 

lines between waypoints. 
A route gives users the capability to navigate through several way-

points without having to reprogram the unit after arriving at each 

waypoint. Once programmed into the unit, a route gives you the option 

of navigating forward through the route waypoints or in reverse order. 

You can even begin navigating in the middle of a route! 
Create and Save a Route 
In the iFINDER, routes can be created, edited and navigated only in 

Advanced Mode. You have the option of creating a route on your com-

puter, if you have purchased our MapCreate 6 software. 

MapCreate is the easiest method for preparing a route, because your 

PC's larger screen, keyboard and mouse are easier to manipulate than 

the pocket-sized iFINDER. 
To load a MapCreate route into the iFINDER, follow instructions in 

MapCreate's manual for creating a route and saving it as part of a GPS 

Data File (file format *.usr). Copy the GPS Data File to an MMC and 

insert the MMC into the iFINDER. (See Sec. 2 for instructions on in-

stalling MMCs. To load the GPS Data File into the iFINDER's memory, 
see the entry on Transferring GPS Data Files between the iFINDER 
and a Computer in this section.) 

You can create a route by selecting existing waypoints from the way-

point list or you can set a series of route waypoints on the map with 

cursor arrows and the Enter key. In this example, we'll create a route 

from the map.