Learn to Navigate using your Garmin GPS

using our OnLine Training Resource

recently updated (Nov 2010) to include

BaseCamp, OS Discoverer Map Cards

and BirdsEye Select

Getting Started with your Garmin GPS - £11.99

(Unlimited access for a one-off fee)

Learning how to navigate using Map, Compass and GPS both confidently and safely can open the door to a lifetime of enjoyment in our hills & mountains, our mission is to help you achieve these goals.

GPS Training have used their experience of running hands-on GPS training courses over the last seven years to create this resource as after course support for our our clients and for all Garmin GPS owners who can't make it to one of our hands-on courses.

This course is packed with all the information you will need to learn how to navigate confidently & safely with your Garmin GPS. Although the step by step instructions and guides are based on the best selling GPS Garmin’s eTrex Colour, GPS 60 Colour, Dakota and Oregon ranges the general principals are applicable to almost any GPS unit.

Learning how to navigate with a GPS is just one part of the equation; it's the combination of GPS and maps that is key to making the best of your GPS.

Learn how you can have Maps on your PC and Maps in your GPS, find out how you can plan routes & trails on your PC using Garmin's free PC software and your OS Discoverer map card, find walks and more on the Internet, edit & save them for use later in the field, print off paper maps and transfer waypoints, routes and tracks to and from your GPS

The resource is packed with useful GPS information and contains 14 lessons, 79 plus web pages and over 30 instructional step by step guides & how to video clips, in addition there are indoor and outdoor exercises and activities to reinforce learning, each lesson includes assessment and certification if required.

Getting Started with your Garmin GPS - Resource Lessons include:

How the GPS system works

Maps for your GPS – Maps for your PC

  • A walk through Pages, Buttons, Keys

  • GPS Setup for use at home and abroad

  • Using GPS at a basic level – locate & Mark your position

  • About Waypoints – create, save, find, edit delete.

  • Create and navigate a GoTo and all about routes

  • All about Tracks, Tracklogs and how to use them

  • The Trip computer- reset and change Information windows

  • Update your unit software – webupdater

  • About Garmin MapSource, BaseCamp and Connect (PC software)

  • Using BaseCamp & OS Discoverer - GPST instructions & exercises

  • Getting a GPS and your PC talking – transfer data

  • Map reading skills for GPS navigation

  • To Enrol on this Course/resource follow these easy steps:

  • Step 1 - Register Online - use this link

    Step 2 - Login via the Available Courses Page
  • Step 3 - Add the Getting Started with GPS course to your shopping cart and pay by Paypal and the course will be automatically unlocked for you
  • Step 4 - Login using your login name & password to have unlimited access to this great resource
  • If you would prefer to talk to one of the GPST team or would prefer not to order online then call us on 01768 885855 now and we can organise everything our end for you.
  • The above can only be a brief description of the course content for more information contact one of the GPST Team, visit www.gpstraining.co.uk or Tel 01768 88585