Possible eTrex 10 Replacement

Hi Dave,

Just got my new Instinct today and it looks really promising.
The answer to your 3 questions is yes. You can set (I guess because there are so much...) any format existing for GPS position (this is a general setting for both display and target creation) and I confirm OSGB is inside.

I tried your suggestion for your 3rd question and it works ! It saved me a little time importing it into GC for a course I want to do for testing the watch navigation.
However I've read somewhere that some gpx files may not be directly compatible... So I hope you won't have any surprise when away from internet. Don't know if that might be interesting for you but the instinct is also compatible with the new Explore app which works offline (not tried yet though).

Best regards,
David

Fantastic! Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions - just got to wait for Santa to visit now! :P

Would be happy to hear how you get on with your navigation testing (any +/-) if you have time to post at some point...

Well, I can tell you my feelings about the test I did yesterday, but as it is my first device with navigation capabilities (and it is the reason I bought it) I don't have any reference to compare with.

So far I am delighted. Everything did not go perfectly but obviously the reason is that I just miss some experience of it.
I simply followed a track (with no waypoint - but I noticed the map shows all recorded gps positions even if created outside of the course you want to follow).
The watch shows your heading and the heading you should follow, the track you want to do and the breadcrumbs of what you are doing.
I think the auto zoom is too large but you can set a custom default zoom (or you can zoom in/out in any case but this implies a few more clicks).

There is an off-course alert which works well from my point of view.
Not perfectly well of course since because of gps precision you sometimes get wrong alerts which stop almost instantly, but on the other side it is better to be alerted quickly when you really missed something. I did not try using Galileo which may help to have a better precision.
You cannot set the off-course distance for this alert, which could be nice though tricky to find the best value...
I saw you can also use a data field showing the current off-course distance.

At some point I went through a 1km shortcut and the Instinct was not lost at all when I went back later on the track.

I greatly appreciate (compared to my older FR235) that you can modify every activity settings and access main clock and ABC widget even when doing an activity.
For example I had to disable the autoclimb function because it was always switching away from the map to data screens.

There are so much settings and available data fields that I think you can always customize it the way it better suits to you...
The only missing data for me is the remaining ascent/descent until your destination/next waypoint. I only found vertical distance to destination which is useless for me.

The screen is small but of sufficient size (higher resolution would be necessary only for full topo maps) and really highly readable (I often have the feeling the backlight is on !).

I had a quick look on Explore app and it seems quite easy to use. I just created gps points and downloaded them to my watch.

So, from navigation point of view it seems to me that you can't get a better device except a fenix 5 plus.

Wow, thanks for the detailed review, I'm definitely ready for a purchase now :D