Great Lakes Bass Fishing Forum
About Fishing Products including Make Your Own => Electronics Talk => Humminbird Side Imaging and Marine Electronics => Topic started by: Revtro on May 02, 2018, 08:00:38 PM
Probably a dumb question: But on every other GPS I have ever owned (this is my first HB) the map view included a Steer Arrow and Distance to Waypoint indicator. I can find nothing like this on the HB. So with only a 5" screen it is really difficult to see where I'm navigating, without a steer arrow or course indicator of some kind. Anyone own one? What am I missing? I would happily trade this unit for all the accessories I need to get my old Lowrance 480 up and running again. I am only using this unit for navigation since I have a larger side finder. Anyone got any ideas about how to set this thing up a little better?
I have an 998 and 898 but I think all birds use the same method. There should be a little boat / triangle symbol that is you. I set mine to Course Up so the arrow is always pointing to where you are headed. When you set Go To a waypoint is should display a line to the point and your position on the line. The distance to or time to point should be displayed.
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