Boo <boo@spam_me_no_spam.net> wrote
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Easy to switch the compass ON/OFF with a two-second press of the PAGE button.
Sounds useful - it's a major pita with the Summit being only able to switch it on, I'm forever
doing it by mistake.
I know the feeling....
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Once you become used to the CLICK STICK and comprehensive menu system it is user-friendly.
Someone here said they though the click-stick seemed a little fragile, how does it seem to you ?
(presumeably OK since you don't mention it ?)
It does look somewhat fragile, but I don't have bricklayer's hands or sausage fingers anyway, so I
don't think I'll break it! I'm learning the habit of using it in my left hand, which it was designed
for, allegedly, and in the left hand only the PAGE button is a bit awkward. I can use it with thin
fleece mitts, but heavy winter gloves in extreme conditions would be tricky, just when you might
need it most. :-(
The menu is very intuitive, and tends to remain on your last selection when you make a change, so
it's easy to reverse the operation You can navigate through most of the screens using only the click-
stick as push switch and joystick alternately.
An example I just tried is when you are on the MAP screen and wish to go to the TRIP COUNTER page. A
click brings up the selection window for all the screens available, you select them with the
joystick movement, then click to move to the selected screen. Having checked the trip counter screen
you click again, and the window opens with MAP already selected, and a click brings you back to the
MAP. Thereafter you can switch between these screens with two clicks, until you want to select
something else.
This is how I normally use it, and the Satellite status or GPS Accuracy can be shown on
both screens.
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It does sound like it would be worth having a look at one day when I have some money...
I bought it out of my children's inheritance, and at £195 it was a good buy.
I'm just wondering how many o ask my daughter to bring over with her in July. ;-)
I was abruptly stopped from using it on American Airlines during our flight by a frosty faced
stewardess, because GPS use in flight is now banned by AA.
--
Gordon
