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8. Click Activate RADAR overlay if interfaced to Radar. To close the log segment at the end of the voyage, click Toolbar. on the Voyage The Position Monitoring Side Panel This panel repeats information from your instruments and provides information related to the active route. If no data is being received, NMEA inactive is shown. If data is being received, the top box indicates • The source of position data (eg, GP for GPS or dGP for DGPS, II for Integrated Instruments). If the source sentence indicates that the data is Estimated (DR), Manual or Simulated this will be shown and the position display will turn red. • A letter a (automatic) or m (manual) to indicate whether the datum has been confirmed automatically via the NMEA sentence DTM, or manually by the user. • The datum of the received position (eg WGS84, OSGB36). Shift will show None required - Chart if the chart is WGS84, Applied - Chart if the chart is referenced to a different geodetic datum but a datum shift to WGS84 is applied, or None available if the chart cannot be referenced to WGS84. See Appendix B for information on geodetic datums. Latitude and Longitude is displayed to the number of decimal places set under Setup|Workspace in the Tools menu. Speed and heading are shown against a blue background which is blanked and changed to a red background when data is lost or the source sentence 176