Radar/Plotter Bearing Mode

[Chuck - Raymarine - Moderator]

Ian,

Radar features have their roots in radar systems which may not have included heading input (would have restricted them to Head Up orientation with the radar application), and correspondingly, all range and bearing data was relative to the radar transducer's ships heading marker. The ship's heading marker is typically aligned with the ship's head. All radar imagery is plotted is relative to the ships head. Without a heading reference, the MFD's chart application would be unable specify bearings of the cursor relative to the vessel's head. That said, the design of the a/c/e/eS/gS-Series MFD software does not presently support displaying cursor info relative to the ship's head ... only relative to true or magnetic north. A feature request will be logged according to consider also permitting cursor bearing data to be reported relative to the vessel's head. However, if/when implemented, this feature additions may require heading input.

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