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[QUOTE]Reef Hawg - 8/29/2012  11:22 AM

[QUOTE]MuskyManiac09 - 8/28/2012  3:33 PM

One thing that hasn't been mentioned for those of you having trouble with the iPilot and wind:

The iPilot has autopilot and advanced autopilot.  Advanced autopilot will have the North signal with a ring around it.  Unless it is pretty calm I almost always turn advanced autopilot off by pressing and holding the autopilot button until the ring goes away.  If the boat is at an angle and you are using the trolling motor to "bump" once in a while to keep you on course the plain autopilot works much better because it keeps your motor pointed straight.  The advanced autopilot will mark a point where the motor was originally pointed and always try to go to that point.

Even when using just the footpad you need to check the remote, because sometimes the advanced autopilot will turn on when you turn on autopilot on the foot pedal.  Sometimes it doesn't....I haven't quite figured out why.[/QUOTE]

Thank you so much!!  You are the first person I've seen that has been able to answer whether the unit still has the 'standard' auto-pilot or not.  Very helpful.[/QUOTE]

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MuskyManiac09 - 8/28/2012 3:33 PM

One thing that hasn't been mentioned for those of you having trouble with the iPilot and wind:

The iPilot has autopilot and advanced autopilot. Advanced autopilot will have the North signal with a ring around it. Unless it is pretty calm I almost always turn advanced autopilot off by pressing and holding the autopilot button until the ring goes away. If the boat is at an angle and you are using the trolling motor to "bump" once in a while to keep you on course the plain autopilot works much better because it keeps your motor pointed straight. The advanced autopilot will mark a point where the motor was originally pointed and always try to go to that point.

Even when using just the footpad you need to check the remote, because sometimes the advanced autopilot will turn on when you turn on autopilot on the foot pedal. Sometimes it doesn't....I haven't quite figured out why.

Thank you so much!! You are the first person I've seen that has been able to answer whether the unit still has the 'standard' auto-pilot or not. Very helpful.