I strongly suspect this is a safety feature. If someone was on the bow doing the "Titanic" thing when a 90 degree course change happened automatically, they might get thrown off the boat.
Generally, the "acknowledge" depends on the arrival alarm function in the navigator. My 15 year old Simrad WP20 turns off "navigate" mode when the navigator (GPS) sends a code that the vessel has arrived within a set distance of the waypoint. When the autosteerer receives the arrival alarm, it switches to "course" mode and tracks the last course it was navigating to. I keep my arrival alarm distance set at 0.10 nm. Dennis C. On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Tim Goodyear via CnC-List < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Edd, > > My Raymarine SPX-5 wheel pilot has a follow-route option. It gets that > route via NMEA 1083 from my Garmin plotter. If that can do it, you can! > One proviso is that I have to hit "acknowledge" at each waypoint arrival on > the pilot controller in order for it to continue on to the next one. > Tim > > Mojito > C&C 35-3 > Branford, CT > > > > >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Email address: >> [email protected] >> To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the >> bottom of page at: >> http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Email address: > [email protected] > To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the > bottom of page at: > http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com > > >
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