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1. Backtrack Route As you travel the Magellan Triton drops electronic breadcrumbs track to display your travels If you want to return to your starting point following the exact same path you took you would create a backtrack route Creating a Backtrack Rout l Press ENTER 2 Scroll down the contextual menu to highlight Backtrack 3 Press ENTER 4 Ifyou have an active route you will be asked to confirm if you want to cancel the route Highlight Yes and press ENTER 5 Confirm starting the backtrack route by highlighting Yes and press ENTER Note if there are not sufficient track points breadcrumbs to create a backtrack route you will be alerted to this and no route will be created TAKING A PHOTO IN A CRIME SCENE PRESERVATIVE SITUATION MAGELLAN TRITON 2000 ONLY This feature is very important in a Crime Scene Preservation of Classical Mystery situation This particular GPS can take photographs and or make audio recording and attached them to a particular Waypoint One should always create a Waypoint at a discovery or clue The clue may be a gum wrapper footprint spoor etc Anything that can be POSITIVELY identified vw to the subject or chase Ta bere 5 D A z j laking a rPnotegrapn 1 Press MENU 2 Select View 3 Select Media 4 select Take Photo amp The View Finder screen is displayed At the upper left portion of the display is the number of photos that can be saved on the SD2. Seventh depression goes to the map screen REPEAT THIS EXERCISE UNTIL YOU MEMORIZE EACH SCREEN and the use of the ESCAPE BUTTON to go back and forth The Page GO TO button takes you forward one step at a time and the ESC Button which is located under the SELECT button takes you back one step at a time EXERCISE TWO Go to map and DEPRESS the MENU button on the right You will see three levels of choices 1 GOTO 2 CREATE 3 VIEW Depress each level and look at the sublevels REMEMBER THAT YOUR ESCAPE esc BUTTON ON THE BOTTOM OF THE GPS WILL TAKE YOU BACK A STEP FOR EACH DEPRESSION GO TO You will be using this button to view your Waypoints and Route areas This button is for looking and starting an activity CREATE This ts the area for creating Waypoints and Routes In this section you will be using the Waypoint and Route areas ONLY VIEW This is the expert level and you will only be using this section to erase your previous tracks For example to erase your tracks you would depress MENU gt gt VIEW gt gt TRACKS and choose the option to erase all tracks 2006 2009 Gelb Organization LLC All Rights Reserved Page 3 of 10 GPS TRAINING EXERCISE FOR SEARCH AND RESCUE PERSONNEL Please repeat this EXERCISE until you have memorize each level Please find the REFERENCE CARD in your GPS box as it describes the levels of functionality under each choice ALWAYS REMEMBER TO PRESS THE ESC ESCAPE BUTTON ON T
3. ROUTE This screen will give you two pieces of information On information window will tell you XTE Crosstrack Trail Error or how many feet you have deviated from the RETURN ROUTE path The second information window will tell the BEARING TO THE NEXT WAYPOINT Now you can practice creating Routes and Waypoints and clearing them without ever walking Don t forget to surrender the GPS to Mike Spada at the Command Center so that all GPS can be reset Thanks Ed Gelb Addendum to Manual October 21 2009 Addressing Backtracking and Taking Photographs as a part of Crime Scene Preservation Available Only to SAR Personnel using the Triton 2000 BACKTRACKING Backtracking is another way of creating a route without going through the procedure of creating Waypoints We do not advise this method but some people can use this procedure to do a step by step backtrack The difference here is that you would be retracing your IDENTICAL original path or track whereas a revere routing allows you to pick the Waypoints you wish and therefore you do not have to retrace your IDENTICAL steps back You would use your COMPASS SCREEN page which you find by pressing the PAGE GO TO button Please refresh yourself with page seven You will be the same technique of match the green direction arrow with the BLACK BUBBLE 2006 2009 Gelb Organization LLC All Rights Reserved Page 8 of 10 GPS TRAINING EXERCISE FOR SEARCH AND RESCUE PERSONNEL
4. arrows on the SELECT button to lt gt move the PAN CURSOR to this designated position and at this point Create your Second Waypoint This is the method were you would be the MAP COORDINATES to set a Waypoint WHEN YOU GET TO ANY FINAL DESTINATION AND ARE READY TO RETURN TO THE POINT OF INSERTION YOU WILL CREATE YOUR LAST AND FINAL WAYPOINT Some members have a problem with the way a Reverse Route works This is because the GPS is drawing a straight line from their present position the last Waypoint to the starting Waypoint This straight line being the shortest route could imply that you would have to walk on water go through buildings jump over cliffs scale a 10 000 foot mountain etc First let me say that you can create a Route and use MULTIPLE Waypoints to return to the starting point Also please take note of the bottom on your compass screen You will see two windows an XTE Cross Track Error window and a Bearing window As you walk to the Reverse Route you will see obstacles any you will have to AVOID THEM As you veer from the return path you will see the XTE window begin to measure the number of feet you are off course After you go around the obstacle and resume following your compass screen you will see the XTE windows start to get smaller under you are on a perfect track For those of you who are pilots this ts like the old GSA ILS system Only it is in a side to side scenario The GSA ILS told you how
5. high you where on the guide path in a side by side scenario it is the XTE and the compass screen is the same Let assume that you already know that a steep mountain is in your direct path to the command center Let us also assume that you have been creating waypoints every 1 mile of your track No one ever has to try to take the direct path to the starting point You can create a REVERSE ROUTE consisting of MULTIPLE Waypoints Let us create such a ROUTE now using our map Using the MENU gt gt CREATE gt gt ROUTE you can create multiple legs of your route 2006 2009 Gelb Organization LLC All Rights Reserved Page 5 of 10 GPS TRAINING EXERCISE FOR SEARCH AND RESCUE PERSONNEL Let us assume that we created multiple Waypoints at intervals of 1 to 1 5 miles The Starting Waypoint was Waypoint 001 and as we walked along we created Waypoint 002 All the way to Waypoint 004 Waypoint 004 is the final destination before we return to the starting point a k a the end of the exercise Now we can create a REVERSE ROUTE by doing a MENU gt gt GOTO gt gt ROUTE and pick all or some of the 4 created Waypoints to make a MULTILEGGED ROUTE This is a method called REVERSE ROUTING and this is again how it is done In this exercise we are going to create the Route using our map and we will not have to do the walking 1 Go to your map screen and create a MULTILEGGED COURSE You would do this by entering the SELECT button and c
6. EEN and now you can walk and watch your progress The Compass Screen The Compass screen displays information about your heading the direction you are travelling and bearing direction to your next waypoint destination if a route is active in a familiar graphical format Qutside the compass are icons indicating the position of the sun and the moon relative to your position and heading Inside the compass there are two arrows that can be displayed The large green arrow is your heading and is displayed only while moving The smaller black arrow is the bearing to your next destination waypoint If you have a route activated When the two arrows are lined up together you are moving directly towards your destination Note that the compass will rotate relative to North The two data fields at the bottom of the display are customized by following the instructions provided Please note the BLACK BUBBLE on the inside ONLY WORKS IF YOU HAVE A ROUTE ACTIVATED ALSO NOTE THAT WHEN YOU HAVE A ROUTE ACTIVATED YOUR DIRECTION TO THE NEXT WAYPOINT WILL BE WHEN THE BLACK BUBBLE IS ALIGNED WITH THE GREEN COMPASS ARROW On bottom your screen the left window will be XTE we discussed above and right window will be BEARING 2006 2009 Gelb Organization LLC All Rights Reserved Page 7 of 10 GPS TRAINING EXERCISE FOR SEARCH AND RESCUE PERSONNEL The compass screen allows you to see the correct bearing you should take to on your RETURN
7. GPS TRAINING EXERCISE FOR SEARCH AND RESCUE PERSONNEL Jungle Ghost Enterprises A Subsidiary of the Gelb Organization L L C 92 Hemlock Terrace Wayne New Jersey USA Jungle Ghost Magellan Triton Sales and Technical Support Headquarters Have Any Questions on Magellan Tritons Feel Free to Contact Us If You Have Questions or Call us at 1 973 694 7425 New Jersey 9AM 6PM Mon Sat Support jungleghost com a a raoi Jungle Ghost Enhanced Magellan Triton 500 and 1200 Navigational GPS Units This GPS Training Exercise was designed for Search and Rescue Units using our Enhanced GPS Equipment Revision 4 1 October 21 2009 This GPS training schedule has been created for Search and Rescue personnel worldwide It is not complete and has been designed for our Enhanced Magellan Triton 500 and 2000 Navigational GPS units only DO NOT FORGET TO DOWNLOAD THE INSTRUCTION MANUALS FOR YOUR GPS TO DO THIS GO TO OUR WEBSITE AT WWW JUNGLEGHOST COM AND DOWNLOAD THE FOLLOWING MANUALS 1 THE TRITON 500 USER MANUAL 2 THE TRITON 2000 USER MANUAL 3 THE PASSAIC COUNTY MOUNTED SPECIAL DEPUTY SHERIFF USER MANUAL 2006 2009 Gelb Organization LLC All Rights Reserved Page 1 of 10 GPS TRAINING EXERCISE FOR SEARCH AND RESCUE PERSONNEL Fundamentals Turning the Triton an 1 Press and hold the power button until the Triton splash screen is displayed a oe Turning the iriton off ATLL When turning off the Triton you can selec
8. HE BOTTOM OF THE GPS TO GO BACK A STEP ONE DEPRESS GOES BACK ONE LEVEL EXERCISE THREE Setting Up the GPS for an exercise This next exercise will emanate your walking to either a preconceived point on a map or blindly searching an area If you are assigned a set of coordinates to start from you will follow this exercise with the exception that you will have only two waypoints Your Point of Insertion POI or Starting Waypoint and a second Destination Waypoint In essence you will creating multiple waypoints using the instructions below This will happen when your SAR Manager at the Incident Center informs your team to go to set of coordinates In this case you will always create an ACTUAL COORDINATE AT THE COMMAND CENTER Then you will also create a second Destination Waypoint As you walk your GPS will lay down a track of electronic breadcrumbs points In this way you can always use the instructions below to plot a direct ROUTE back to your POI when your exercise begins START OF COURSE Before you start an exercise you must 1 Don t forget that you can use the SELECT center button It is like the enter button on a computer You can use the left right up and down arrows on various screens 2 REMOVE ANY PREVIOUS TRACKS FROM THE GPS Remember MENU gt gt VIEW gt gt TRACKS choose the ERASE option 3 REMOVE ANY OLD WAYPOINTS and ANY OLD ROUTES The new firmware makes erasing old Waypoints and Routes very easy Plea
9. card To change the zoom levels Use the Zoom or Zoom keys The Tools button Mode Select Camera or Camcorder Size Resolution select 800x600 1024x768 1480x1024 or 1600841700 Quality Select Low Normal or High 6 Press ESC to save changes and return to the View Finder screen f Press ENTER to take photograph 2006 2009 Gelb Organization LLC All Rights Reserved Page 9 of 10 GPS TRAINING EXERCISE FOR SEARCH AND RESCUE PERSONNEL The photo options are View the Photograph Save the Photograph Create a Photopoint Attach to Here you would pick a Waypoint of the scene you created Delete the Photo 2006 2009 Gelb Organization LLC All Rights Reserved Page 10 of 10
10. he Magellan Store and loaded automatically into your Magellan Triton from an SD card You will need to select the detailed map you want to use to activate It 1 From the Map screen press MENU 2 Select View 3 Select Maps 4 Select the detailed map from the list that you want to activate and press ENTER Ss The font for the detailed map will turn blue when It is active 6 Select the green checkmark 2006 2009 Gelb Organization LLC All Rights Reserved Page 2 of 10 GPS TRAINING EXERCISE FOR SEARCH AND RESCUE PERSONNEL PRELIMINARY SETTINGS FOR THE GPS UNITS NOTE THE GPS UNITS SUPPLIED TO OUR GROUP HAVE ALL BEEN SET UP FOR MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY Please practice on your GPS to find the areas referred to below The Page GO TO button in on the lower left side Depressing it takes you from one screen to another EXERCISE ONE Depress the Page GO TO button 1 First depression is your Current Location Screen Please note that your present coordinates are on this screen 2 Second depression is again your coordinates and present heading and bearing IF YOU ARE MOVING 3 Third depression is your speedometer The easiest way to reset the levels Just go to your map screen and press on the SELECT button and then choose RESET ALL and the values will be set to ZERO 4 Fourth depression is your compass screen 5 Fifth depression is your Altimeter and Barometer screen 6 Sixth depression is your satellite screen 7
11. hoosing a Waypoint This Waypoint will be automatically named Waypoint0O01 Now move the pan cursor using the left up down and right arrows to a different position on your map Hint Use the Zoom button to go out to about 1 2 mile scale and SELECT button and create another Waypoint 002 move the pan cursor again a distance and create Waypoint 003 and again move the pan cursor and create Waypoint 004 we will call this our final destination 2 Now create a ROUTE Press MENU gt gt CREATE gt gt ROUTE 3 Using your arrows go to the Waypoint Table and press SELECT the final destination Waypoint 004 and press the SELECT button again 4 Then press Add Point and press the SELECT button 5 Next select the next Waypoint let us say it is 003 Press Add Point and choose Waypoint 002 and lastly Waypoint 001 6 When you are finished use your arrows to move the point to DONE and press SELECT 7 Next using your arrows to Save Route and press the SELECT button 8 Highlight ROUTE 001 and press the SELECT button 9 This will show you the details of the Route you selected The number of Waypoints the length in Miles to the Destination and this map also gives you the ability to do a VERTICAL PROFILE from start to end 10 THIS IS IMPORTANT DO NOT FORGET TO SAVE THE ROUTE 11 Next use your Escape button to go to the map screen 12 You will now see your multilegged route as a COLORED segmented line from your prese
12. nt position to the starting point 13 WARNING If you forgot to save your Route you PAGE GOTO button will not work If so do a MENU gt gt GOTO gt gt ROUTE and highlight Route001 and press SELECT again to activate the Route If you did this correctly the PAGE GOTO button will work 14 If you now press the PAGE GOTO button once you will see the Bearing and miles to your destination 2006 2009 Gelb Organization LLC All Rights Reserved Page 6 of 10 GPS TRAINING EXERCISE FOR SEARCH AND RESCUE PERSONNEL Current Location Screen The Current Location screen contains information about your present db Satata position as well as the distance and bearing to your next waypoint destination if there is an active route being used To reset the odometer go to the Speedometer screen and follow the Instructions provided for resetting the odometer 15 Let clarify Heading from Bearing at this time Heading H Reading is the direction a user is moving or facing measured in 6 bau degrees relative to north This tells you what direction you are Ps B oing Pe a A j g WwW 710 gE Bearing he es Bearing is the direction of a destination from the user measured gf Le 195 in degrees relative to north This tells you what direction to go If an no Go To or Route is set this will appear blank or dashes Now press the PAGE GO TO button three more times IF NOT REFRESH YOURSELF WITH EXERCISE ONE you can go to the COMPASS SCR
13. se do MENU gt gt SETTINGS gt gt MEMORY and choose Clear the Memory All Waypoints and Routes will automatically be erased 4 RESET THE ODOMETER AKA NO MORE PACING on the MAP SCREEN depress the center SELECT button and scroll down to the RESET command Highlight and depress the SELECT button and choose Reset All This will clear your odometer screen NOW WHEN YOU LEAVE THE INCIDENT COMMAND CENTER THE FIRST ACT IS TO CREATING A WAYPOINT THIS IS THE QUICK WAY TO CREATE A WAYPOINT At any time when you are looking at the map screen you can JUST PRESS THE SELECT BUTTON and pick CREATE A WAYPOINT REMEMBER THAT YOU MUST HAVE TURNED ON YOUR GPS AND HAVE FIVE 5 GREEN BARS ON THE TOP RIGHT SIDE OF THE GPS OR YOUR WAYPOINT WILL BE WRONG 2006 2009 Gelb Organization LLC All Rights Reserved Page 4 of 10 GPS TRAINING EXERCISE FOR SEARCH AND RESCUE PERSONNEL IF YOU ARE STARTING EXERCISE ALWAYS CHOOSE YOUR START POINT AS WAYPOINT SO CLICK ON CURRENT LOCATION On your new firmware then you create a Waypoint you will see the coordinates of the new Waypoint and other data PLEASE REMEMBER TO USE THE SELECT BUTTON TO SAVE THE WAYPOINT NOTE If you are proceeding to a prearranged Waypoint given to you by your ICC SAR Manager this is the time you would enter a Second Waypoint using the coordinates they give you If he does not know the coordinates you can use the up down left and right
14. t to have it Trimn shutdown or go into suspend mode ee 1 Press the Power button and the Triton will begin the shutdown sequence 2 Jo place the Triton in suspend mode press Enter before the shutdown sequence is complete 3 To cancel the shutdown sequence and return to the last viewed screen press any key or tap the screen 4A lf after 5 seconds no key has been pressed the Triton will shutdown Setting the display backlight intensity Depending upon the lighting conditions you are in you may need to change the backlight settings for the display There are five levels of backlight intensity press the backlight button momentarily to step through each level of backlight intensity Ll Press the backlight button momentarily The backlight intensity will increase 20 until it reaches the maximum intensity Pressing the backlight button again will turn off the display backlight Please note that reducing the backlight setting will Increase the battery life for the Triton Refer to the section in this chapter on Battery Life for other tips on extending the Triton s battery life Also note that the backlight and the flashlight use the same button on the Magellan Triton Press the button momentarily to control the backlight setting press and hold the button to turn the flashlight on and off Press button momentarily Selecting Maps Detailed maps including National Geographic maps can be purchased and downloaded from t
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