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Old 09-25-2019, 09:39 AM   #4
JohnEasley
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Originally Posted by AdmiralS View Post
Speaking of the autopilot, if you plan on going Garmin consider it a standalone AutoPilot that does heading hold. Garmin Chartplotters only play nicely with Garmin Autopilots which allow there advanced waypoint and auto guidance routing.
I'm going to respectfully disagree with you on this point, Admiral. I had heard the same stories about Garmin chartplotters not playing well with no-Garmin auto pilots. Wanderlust has a 12" Garmin 7612xsv chartplotter and a Simrad AP28 autopilot. I connected both to the NMEA 2000 backbone. They communicate well with each other and the autopilot follows plotted and stored routes in the chartplotter perfectly, including automatic, turn-by-turn navigation.

John
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