User manual ALK COPILOT ACER P600

[. . . ] CoPilot and CoPilot Premium personal navigation device user manual p-series CoPilot and CoPilot Premium Kits CoPilot and CoPilot Premium Kits CoPilot and CoPilot Premium Satellite Navigation Kit for Acer p610, p630, p660 or p680 personal navigation device Your CoPilot or CoPilot Premium kit contains the following: SD storage card pre-loaded with maps 1 x installation CD 2 x data CDs Car charger and connector cable Car mount FM9 cable* *Optional accessory i CoPilot and CoPilot Premium Acer p-series Contents Contents Getting started GPS CoPilot screen controls CoPilot Home screen CoPilot Menus Navigating to a destination Entering an Address Entering a Home Address Entering a Work Address Entering a Favourite Destination Entering a Recent Destination Entering a Contact Navigating to a Point Of Interest Navigating to a Postcode Pick on Map Navigating to an Intersection Latitude/longitude Saved Trip 1 3 4 5 6 8 10 12 12 13 14 15 16 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 CoPilot and CoPilot Premium Trip editing and waypoints Optimising and re-arranging Stops Detour feature Selective routing Acer p-series ii Contents Safety camera alerts TMC traffic service Driving views Driver safety Where am I?Itinerary Next Turn Destination 3D Day/night map display Customise your map displays 27 28 30 30 31 31 31 31 31 32 32 33 34 36 38 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 50 Navigation modes Routing settings Guidance settings Map settings POI alert settings Regional Settings Favourite settings Recent stop settings My Place Settings CoPilot desktop software Data Download Wizard Acer Support Services iii CoPilot and CoPilot Premium Acer p-series Getting Started Getting Started Please refer to the separate Acer p-series personal navigation device (PND) user manual for instructions on setting up your hardware Switch on your Acer personal navigation device (PND) Insert the CoPilot navigation SD card into the SD card slot found on the right side of the PND Press the 'Navigator' button to start CoPilot navigation. NB: It may take several seconds for CoPilot to load. Acer p-series CoPilot and CoPilot Premium 1 Getting Started Tips and tricks Each time you start CoPilot, a useful hint or tip will be displayed. Press `Next Tip' to read additional tips and tricks or press `X' to close this feature. [. . . ] Select `Preview Route' followed by `Drive' from the `Route' screen. Optimise Stops Re-arranging Stops To re-arrange the order in which destinations are listed in your trip, select one of the destinations in the `Edit Trip'* screen and select `move up' or `move down' from the pop-up menu to change the stop order. *Exclusive to CoPilot Premium 24 CoPilot and CoPilot Premium Acer p-series Detour Feature* Detour Feature* Once you have entered your destination(s) in the `Edit Trip'* screen and selected Preview Route > Drive, CoPilot Premium will calculate the best route and provide you with turn-byturn guidance to the destination(s). While driving along your route, if you face unexpected traffic congestion, road works/closures or any other unforeseen circumstances that causes delay along your route, you can use CoPilot Premium's detour feature to calculate and preview an alternative route. You can make an informed decision about whether you would prefer to travel along the original route or alternative route. How to use the detour feature 1. You must first enter in your destination(s) and press `Drive'. Select Menu > View > Itinerary to show the turn by turn directions of your journey, based on the original route set by CoPilot. Press Menu > Detour to calculate an alternative route. Review the new itinerary, based on the alternative route calculated by CoPilot. Review the road name, plus the ETA and distance to destination fields of both routes to help you compare and determine your preferred route. If you decide to use the new alternative route, just keep driving. To return to the original route defined by CoPilot select Menu > Cancel Detour. *Exclusive to CoPilot Premium Acer p-series CoPilot and CoPilot Premium 25 Selective Routing Selective Routing You can choose to avoid specific roads in the automatically calculated itinerary or adjust the route using waypoints*. 1) Customise your Trip Itinerary+ Set CoPilot to Guidance Mode by selecting Menu > More* > More* > Mode* > Guidance*. Enter your destination(s) in the `Edit Trip'* screen and select Preview Route* > Drive Press Menu > View > Itinerary to display the itinerary map which shows all road names, turn instructions and the distance between each turn. Select and hold a road that you want to avoid and select the `Avoid' button. CoPilot will calculate a new route that avoids the selected road. Note: If there is no other possible road or the alternative route is too impractical, a new route will NOT be generated. To return to the original route, press the `Cancel Avoid' button. 2) Set Waypoints* You can define CoPilot Premium's route by setting destinations as `Waypoints' as described on p. CoPilot Premium will guide you through the waypoint towards your destination. *Exclusive to CoPilot Premium + Menus and screens vary between CoPilot and CoPilot Premium 26 CoPilot and CoPilot Premium Acer p-series Safety Camera Alerts* Safety Camera Alerts* CoPilot can warn you as you approach one of the preloaded safety camera locations while driving. How to switch-on safety camera alerts: Press Menu > More > Settings > More > Safety Alerts Select the 'Enable' tick box Use the arrow buttons to choose how far or close to a speed camera location that you wish to receive a warning. Press `'. How to download updated safety camera locations: You can download a list of updated safety camera locations from the Internet from time to time. Please visit www. alk. com/acer where you will find the latest available file to download with detailed instructions about how to load the locations into your navigation system. Driving with Safety Camera Alerts As you approach one of the loaded safety camera locations, your current speed, the road's speed limit and the distance to the safety camera will be displayed on-screen and with a spoken warning. Local speed limit Distance to safety camera Your current speed *Exclusive to CoPilot Premium Acer p-series CoPilot and CoPilot Premium 27 TMC Traffic Service* TMC Traffic Service* What is the Traffic Message Channel? The Traffic Message Channel (TMC) is a specific application of the FM Radio Data System (RDS) used for broadcasting real-time traffic information. If a TMC traffic signal is available CoPilot will display traffic incidents on your route automatically and can recommend an alternate route if required. Using TMC Traffic in CoPilot Premium Set up the TMC receiver (see the instructions on page 3) Select Menu > Traffic > Settings to adjust the alert settings within CoPilot and define how you would prefer CoPilot to handle TMC traffic messages. Get Incidents 'Always' is recommended - CoPilot will automatically check your route for traffic incidents 'Never' lets you can check for traffic incidents manually Default Incident Action 'Ignore' - CoPilot will NOT avoid a reported incident automatically 'Avoid' - CoPilot will avoid reported incidents automatically Get Incidents - Always Default Incident Action Ignore Traffic settings screen 28 CoPilot and CoPilot Premium Acer p-series You can also search for traffic incidents manually: 1) Check route In CoPilot, press 'Menu' > 'Traffic' > 'Check Route' to search for traffic incidents along your current route. 2) Find traffic Press 'Menu' > 'Traffic' > 'Find Traffic' to search for all traffic incidents. [. . . ] a) City radius - download a circular map area around a specific town or city. Click on 'City Radius' Key-in the name of the required city or town and press 'Enter'. A list of matching locations will be displayed. Select the correct location Choose the "Distance around the City" you wish to download, for example 100 miles and click 'Next' The map area to be downloaded will be highlighted by a yellow circle. [. . . ]