Elessar
Well-Known Member
Route details, only available in a dialogue not a window. A very useful screen I would like to leave up on passage but I can't.
Data bar configuration. SO inflexible. Lowrance infinately better.
Time to destination an unavailable field in navigation screen, only time to next waypoint.
AIS alarms. To enable and disable is buried deep in a menu. Set the alarms for a channel crossing and when you arrive in port the thing won't stop bleeping just as you're trying to moor up or deal with pilotage - why not 2 buttons "disable alarm for this target" and "disable alarm completely"
NMEA in and NMEA out the same bit rate.
"reverse and follow" reverses the route permenantly not on a one time basis, ie route called Southampton-Dartmouth may in fact start in Dartmouth and you can't tell until you start following.
And worst of all - if the GPS has a momentary glitch as it often does in rough weather, you get a waypoint arrival alarm to which you can't say "no i haven't", when you clear the alarm the waypoint is advanced. SO you have to disable navigation, restart, advance to the correct waypoint and you will have lost any XTE whether you like it or not.
I suppose Raymarine is in such a pickle they won't bother fixing it. And yes I have emailed them about (some of) the things.
A shame - it's well made kit and seatalk is so much better than NMEA.
I also note the journos when testing raymarine kit always praise its intuitive software - it isn't intuitive just familiar.
Data bar configuration. SO inflexible. Lowrance infinately better.
Time to destination an unavailable field in navigation screen, only time to next waypoint.
AIS alarms. To enable and disable is buried deep in a menu. Set the alarms for a channel crossing and when you arrive in port the thing won't stop bleeping just as you're trying to moor up or deal with pilotage - why not 2 buttons "disable alarm for this target" and "disable alarm completely"
NMEA in and NMEA out the same bit rate.
"reverse and follow" reverses the route permenantly not on a one time basis, ie route called Southampton-Dartmouth may in fact start in Dartmouth and you can't tell until you start following.
And worst of all - if the GPS has a momentary glitch as it often does in rough weather, you get a waypoint arrival alarm to which you can't say "no i haven't", when you clear the alarm the waypoint is advanced. SO you have to disable navigation, restart, advance to the correct waypoint and you will have lost any XTE whether you like it or not.
I suppose Raymarine is in such a pickle they won't bother fixing it. And yes I have emailed them about (some of) the things.
A shame - it's well made kit and seatalk is so much better than NMEA.
I also note the journos when testing raymarine kit always praise its intuitive software - it isn't intuitive just familiar.
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