red direction arrow

Hi Alex,
Do you think that your compass is calibrated and working steady and correctly.
Sam..

Thank you Sam for your response i don’t know if it’s calibrated but in my course of 5kms in the 3 first kms the arrow was great but the 2 last the arrow goes down the watch

Find north direction,(where your stood)then
just scroll to the widget "compass" or "abc" widget and check if all is ok, is it pointing in the right direction,is it steady over a period of time,
does it move around unexpectedly etc.

If its just not pointing in the right direction,
you should try a calibration by holding menu,(when viewing the widget)then compass options and calibrate,follow screen prompts.
lets try this first.
all the best..

I have calibrated the compass and it works perfectly but when i arrive on an intersection (not at all), the alarm doesn’t work i turn like on the map but the arrow goes down, like if the intersection is not validated, if i continue at the next intersection where the alarm works the red arrow goes back up

I was hoping that would be a quick fix :-)

Ive never made a "route loop" as you said.(you mean have the watch generate a route for you?)
I would have to test it myself to see if i could duplicate your problem over the next few days.
When i get the chance I'll try it myself.
Hopefully someone will know the answer first.
all the best....

Many Thanks Sam for your help it’s not a big problem because with the map you can see where you can go and this feature of looping is really great you choose the distance you want and the watch generates a course.
i think it’s not possible to be a material problem because the route trace is perfect and the map works perfectly the compass also works fine

I haven’t tried the round trip loop but is the red arrow not the compass and the blue one the direction arrow sorry if I have miss understood what your saying
Mick

He isn't talking about the red arrow on the map page, which is showing (only) always the north direction.

I think you are right that the watch is not registering that you have reached a waypoint. So it keeps pointing to that waypoint after you reached it. And since the waypoint is now behind you, the red arrow (also called the Navigation Bug, I think) will point downwards.

I guess it could be a time problem where the watch is not quick enough to register that you reached the waypoint before you are already going away from it again. Or it could be a distance problem where the distance to the waypoint never gets low enough because of noisy GPS positions.

It may be easier to see what is happening if you make a custom data screen with the fields "Next waypoint" and "Distance to next". The two fields will show you the name or number of the next waypoint on the course and the distance to that waypoint. The distance should reduce while you get nearer to the waypoint, and when you get near enough, the name/number of the next waypoint should change, and you should see the distance to the new waypoint.

(Be aware that the two fields are buggy on the Fenix 3. If you receive an Off Course alert, they will freeze and be unusable for problem solving. I don't know if the Fenix 5X has the same problem.)