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moonzy1

"The technician was likely making the point that should it additionally be desired that the MFD receive 10Hz heading updates, " --

- When I asked the tech support person over the phone for advice, I only asked him "how do I connect the new Axioms to the older autopilot" . and "Will it operate as it should w the ew MFds" . no mention made of heading sensor updates specifically. He instructed me that the actisense gate would take care of that.

A2. The Autopilot Controls feature of MFDs running LightHouse 3 software requires that the MFD be interfaced to an Evolution Autopilot. This will be reflected within the MFD's transducer status, which will indicate No (compatible) Pilot detected. Should you desire to operate you autopilot in Auto mode, then you will need to command it into that mode via the autopilot control head. However, should the should the MFD be commanded into navigation mode (i.e. commanded to Go To a Waypoint / Cursor Position or to Follow a Route), then the associated navigational data should be transmitted to the autopilot via the SeaTalk to SeaTalkng Converter. The autopilot control head's buttons would then be used to command your legacy autopilot into Track mode.

While I have not tested it yet, once again, Raymarine tech support stated yesterday that the way I currently have this set up through the Actisense gate, the Autopilot and mfd should behave together just as you describe above except no mention of a seatalkng converter. It was mutually understood as his following comment was that the seatalk info would run back through the course computer and all info should be exchanged between the MFD and legacy pilot through the N2K backbone via Actisense gate.

Are you saying this is not accurate that the pilot can be commanded to track to waypoint w the current setup?