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I use GPS NavX on a MacBook at the Nav station using 10.6.8 OS. I have a new iPad wifi only and would like to mirror the display so I can see a chart while in the cockpit. I found an app called iDisplay but that uses a router I think instead of Ad Hoc? Any other way to do this? I am currently off shore and don't have a router with me.

Thanks, John

S/V On Assignment
Man-O-War Cay
Bahamas

iBook tutorial "Navigate with iNavX" is now available in English.

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I am new to this forum. Just trying to email from my INAVX to GPSmap 78sc. When I try I get a message that I need to set up a mail account. I am registered until 2016, and it has my email address. How do you set up a mail account?

Thanks, Dave

Please use the forum linked below for PolarNavy support..

http://support.polarnavy.com/forum/

Hi there,

iNavX is a very nice product, but I find the way that routes are created very clumsy. I first need to create all the waypoints and only then can I create a route. On my chart plotter (and to my recollection a number of other iOS/Android charting solutions) it's much easier as I can just click Add Route directly from the chart and start adding a route.

Brzail DHN update in the Marine GeoGarage

21 nautical charts have been updated and 5 charts added

US NOAA update in the Marine GeoGarage

35 nautical charts updated

First time poster on this forum. I did a search but could not locate anyone reporting this issue.

We have been using the ipad and iNavX charting for more than a year now. Full time cruisers currently in Western Panama.

We are also running 3 other GPS/ charting programs. OpenCPN, Furuno GPS32 , Furuno radar chart plotter and a Vesper Marine AIS 850. Each of these units provides GPS information.

When underway, COG as displayed in iNavX on the iPad is not in agreement with my other onboard GPS receivers. Carefully watching the OpenCPN program being fed by the Vesper marine 850 AIS and the Furuno chart plotter being fed from a standalone GPS antenna and the Furuno 32 GPS all 3 show the COG if not the same very close (within 1 degree). But the iPad / Inavx is off by up to 15 degrees!!!

In the example sent to iNavx the boatspeed was 4-7 knots. They have been very responsive and I respond to them with all my current settings. But currently there is no solution. Hence my note to the group

The interesting thing is that even though the COG line shows we are way off the course line the boat still appears tracking right on the WP line. The vessel would show staying on the track but the velocity vector would show us steering off course. I could not use this feature as it was incorrect.

iNavx responds: I have not heard of COG being incorrect. iNavX displays exactly what the iPad reports as COG. So if iNavX has COG wrong, every other app would also. COG is computed by taking the bearing from the previous GPS position to the current position. So if HPE: were a high value then it could explain an incorrect COG. (Less than 20 is ok.)

Our ipad HPE is under 20. Is there another setting on the ipad that could be causing a issue?

Has anyone else experienced this problem?

Thanks in advance for suggestions

Chuck
Jacaranda