![]() TWM -thanks, but i guess i'm not that interested. I already have several PC nav programs, including expedition, and none will do this. Thanks for the info - seems like it's not so great., although if all i want is an easy way to transfer waypoints and routes to the chartplotter, it might be ok.ĭDW - i am not sure that any of the programs you are talking about will interface with an on-deck chartplotter. I never missed it and it's a shame to see a good idea so poorly implemented. Even removal and re-installation didn't solve that problem. #Macenc not showing raster chart updateIt runs best under Windows XP however a Windows update I installed a week before leaving on the race caused RNS to hang on startup. Even the El Cheapo MapTech Offshore Navigator does a much better job of chart management. Then having found and listed the hundreds of NOAA, Navionics, and C-Map charts I have, I then had to select all those I might want to use during the time that RNS was running. Just starting it up takes forever as it searches all of your hard drive for charts. If you have Expedition already, then you'd never want to touch RNS (despite RNS starting life as a cousin of Expedition - it's now a long lost cousin !!! ). It certainly has a rich list of features including performance, polars, and weather routing, most of which I tried, however, due to the interface being awkward, convoluted, non-intuitive and very slow, I disliked using it. #Macenc not showing raster chart softwareIf i wanted to look at charts, this would be the last piece of software I'd use. As a result, simple acts of zooming in and out of charts or dragging/panning the chart (as can you do in 99% of other PC charting software) is as awkward as it is on the chart plotter. It was written to emulate the clunky interface of a chart plotter as opposed to using a typical GUI of a windows environment, coupled with a decent API to the E80. it's a terrible executions of that idea from a technological architecture perspective. The concept of controlling the chart plotter/radar and sharing charts sounds useful. Here is my summary of what I think of it: the C-Map charts I bought for use with Expedition (East Coast USA to Bermuda) weren't compatible with the E80. As far as sharing C-Map charts, not all C-Map charts are compatible with the E80. We only ever needed to see the radar at the helm on a couple of occasions and therefore didn't really need to see it at the nav station. I usually use Expedition and other tools. For the same reasons of having control over the E80 via the High Speed Ethernet Switch that's also needed, I installed the latest version of RNS on my laptop. I did an offshore race on a friend's boat as naviguesser this year. ![]()
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