Auto pilot not following route!

[Chuck - Raymarine - Moderator]

Welcome to the Raymarine Forum Big Moe,

It is recommended that those who command their systems to follow a route, display the Waypoint Info data item within the MFD's Databar, Data application, or within a Databox. When a route has been commanded to be followed, this data item will be populated with the name of the waypoint which is currently being navigated to, along with range, bearing, and TTG to this waypoint. Additionally, a dashed black course line will be rendered from the vessel icon to the waypoint being navigated to. Many customers will designate their dock slip or the vessel's location at the time that the route was created as the first waypoint of the route. Should the vessel be located somewhere other than that location when the route has been commanded to be followed, then the MFD will direct that the vessel be navigated to the route's first waypoint prior to proceeding to the next waypoint of the route. Accordingly, should the vessel have already proceeded in the direction of the desired route waypoint to be navigated to, then the Chart application's Waypoint Advance command should be executed a sufficient number of times to permit the data within the Waypoint Info data item to be populated with data corresponding the the route to be navigated to and for the rendered course line to be drawn from the vessel's position to this same route waypoint. When autopilots are commanded into Track mode, they will attempt to steer the vessel as quickly as possible back to the route's leg line leading to the rout waypoint being navigated to ... as this is the safe course as specified by the route planner. However, should the path between the vessel's current position and the route waypoint being navigated to, then you may want to consider using the Restart XTE command to designate system navigate from the vessel's position directly to the route waypoint instead of tracking back to the leg of the route immediately preceding the waypoint.