Garmn Auto Guidance

Michael Mirra

Michael Mirra

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Jan 18, 2017
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Rock Hall, Md
Boat Info
360 Sundancer 2002
Engines
8.1 Horizon X 2
I am thinking about upgrading to the Garmin Vison maps with auto guidance. My question is when using this feature does is put in a route with multiple way points or just one at the beginning and one at the destination? The reason i ask is because i have a Raymarine auto pilot and was wondering if it would beep to signal an approaching turn and then turn and track to the next turn after pushing the track button twice like it does with a manual entered route. Anyone using this feature with a non Garmin auto pilot?
 
The auto guidance will be a curved line - no waypoints for a non-Garmin AP to follow.

I like my Vision card for other reasons though, particularly satellite imagery for land-masses. Make sure you buy a genuine card. There are plenty of copies on the market and the latest firmware rejects them.
 
I don't have an autopilot, so I don't know how it would work with the auto guidance, but when I plot a course using auto guidance, it isn't a curved line on my unit, but a series of straight lines between points along the route. I don't know for sure if it is creating separate waypoints, but I know I can drag them to alter the route when reviewing it. I often with do an auto route, then review the route and drag the points to go around aids to navigation, even if the depth is ok for my boat to cut them according to the auto guidance. This is using a Garmin GPSMAP 7610xsv with the Vison card. I would check it out in more detail, but here in the Northeast, my boat is on the hard and won't be awake again until May... (so sad)
 
Thank god the Garmin does NOT work like Raymarine. I had Ray in my Chaparral, and Garmin on my current Meridian. The Garmin will, in fact, follow a route/autoguidance automatically without "accepting" every little turn or jog. I hated that about Raymarine. But as stated above.....the pilot has to be Garmin to follow autoguidance.
 
flyboycj84 said:
Thank god the Garmin does NOT work like Raymarine. I had Ray in my Chaparral, and Garmin on my current Meridian. The Garmin will, in fact, follow a route/autoguidance automatically without "accepting" every little turn or jog. I hated that about Raymarine. But as stated above.....the pilot has to be Garmin to follow autoguidance.
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I understand it only works with Garmin. My question was does it put in way points so my Raymarine can follow them manually
 
No. The feature won’t function without a garmin autopilot.
 
Michael Mirra said:
I understand it only works with Garmin. My question was does it put in way points so my Raymarine can follow them manually
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It does not. Nor can you save an Auto Guidance route as anything other than an Auto Guidance Route, even if you edit the AG route. You can certainly get your boat on the route and manually follow the headings as they change.
 
Following this thread since I am new Garmin chart plotters.

I have 7612 xsv's, with a Raymarine AP.

From talking with the technician who did the install (he is doing some additional work on the boat) gained the following understanding.

When a route is loaded into the Garmin, the boat will follow the route, however at each waypoint an alarm will sound and you have to acknowledge that you want to go to the next waypoint. Not hands off.

If the AP was changed out to Garmin, it would make the turns with no prompting.

At this point, I am ok with the prompting. Will see after the next few weeks.

Mark
 
Mark
If you put in a route manually (i have the same plotter) the AP will follow with prompting like you stated. My question was would it follow an auto guidance route. From what was said in this thread, the auto guidance route doesn't put in way points so the AP wont follow the route.
 
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