FishOutUvH2O
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I have to agree. The Sol's compass works great. There was definitely some issues to overcome when I first started using it. The hardest one being equipment confidence. Since I came from the mechanical compass crowd I was very skeptical (actually, hostile) of a digital compass. But after using it a bunch of times, side-by-side with my mechanical one, I realized it was just as accurate and really pretty easy to use. Another issue was sensitivity. The Sol's compass is a lot more sensitive than my mechanical one and if you're moving your arm side-to-side a lot, it can be hard to pin down the heading. Again, a few uses and the problem went away. A feature I really like about the Sol's compass is that once you set a reference bearing on it, the compass automatically calculates the headings for reciprocal/out-n-back, triangle, and square/rectangle patterns and places symbols on the screen for them. Now, if I could just get my "distance traveled" down, I'd actually be a decent navigator.I have a Galileo Sol, and I really quite like the compass in it. It reads accurately at full tilt and tracks very smoothly. I set the computer so that once I turn on the compass it stays in the compass display mode until I turn it off and go back to the regular display mode. While in the compass mode, I still get a display of depth, dive time, tank pressure, and NDL.
Bruce
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