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| I'm experiencing a problem while trying to mark waypoints from the side imaging screen. This is with a Humminbird Helix 5 SI/GPS but I suspect the issue is the same for other units.
While moving in reverse (back-trolling), if I see something off to the side, I use the cursor arrows to move my cursor to the thing (rocks, fish, weeds, etc) and enter a waypoint. The waypoint gets placed on the WRONG side of my route line.
Example: I see rocks 60' off to the starboard side. I use the arrows to move my cursor on the SI screen over to the rocks on the RIGHT HAND side of my screen and mark a waypoint. That waypoint then shows up on the WRONG side of my route line on the chart. It places the waypoint on the starboard side of the BOAT ICON, which has the bow of the icon pointing in the direction of actual travel, which is obviously not the case when moving in reverse.
As far as I can tell it's a programming issue that assumes the boat is always traveling forward, so the starboard side of the transducer correlates to the right-hand side of the boat icon, or 90 degrees clockwise from the trajectory arrow on the chart, while the port side of the transducer correlates to 270 degrees clockwise from the trajectory arrow.
Has anyone faced this issue? Has anyone figured out a remedy? Humminbird Service has not helped in two email attempts. I don't fault them yet, since it's hard to explain and harder to wrap your head around. Next step is to try a phone call with them.
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