Thanks. Are you happy with it? I like the Time Zero.
Are you able to receive AIS and NMEA on DRS4W WiFi?
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Placida...Gasparilla
MRD and all
Interesting, I do have AIS and it only came into play once in six years, when crossing the Gulf Stream to Cat Cay I was on a collision course with Russian freighter. I was just about to turn south to let the freighter go before my boat when I got a call from the freighter. In a thick Russian accent he call my boat on VHF 16 and informed that he would slow down and let me go first. I thanked him and sped up. It was nice but that’s the only time I felt it came in handy. Granted I don’t go at night and don’t have to worry about fog.
The Navionics app allows you to plot out the route beforehand. It also saves your tracks and attacks to pictures taken along the way. Works great!
Hey Mike, you can also plan a route on your iPad on Navionics and upload to your GARMIN chart plotter via wifi or Bluetooth. Can you do that with that Raymarine stuff???
We had a non-GPS iPad so I just bought a “Bad Elf” external GPS unit. Works fine. About $100 on Amazon.A $130 Bluetooth gps will let you use any pad.
We use both Navioinics and Aqua Map. Navionics is on my IPAD and Iphone and Reymarine MFD. Aqua Maps is on IPAD and Iphone. We use Navionics for planning routes at home which are uploaded to our chart plotter. We use Aqua Maps to check routing information such as depth profiles and Active Captain inputs. In route we navigate with our MFD but have Aqua Maps on and IPAD along side. I also allow AIS to diplay on the IPAD with Aqua Maps and the Raymarine MFD.
I have always liked Navionics, but downloaded Aqua Maps recently for access to Active Captain and some other features after reading this thread. The display is nice, and a good resource overall but one thing I did not like: The chart does not pan forward while the boat is moving to keep the boat icon in the center of the chart so I have to continually get out of the helm chair and do it manually. Is it just me, or do others also experience this?
Edit, I am using a large IPad with a built in GPS.
We mostly use Garmin Active Captain on our phones (we pulled the maps down from our Garmin 7612xsv chartplotter) but we also have Navionics. Nice to have options and to be able to crosscheck.